In what ways is this a Gothic tale?

Angela Carter's 'The Tiger's Bride' is a subverted version of 'Beauty and the Beast' and it includes many different gothic elements. For example the description of the setting in the story includes gothic language, 'how starveling, how bereft the dead season of this spurious Eden in which all the fruit was blighted by cold'. When the girl is heading towards the Beast's 'palazzo', Carter has described the journey and the surroundings as being bereft, the 'Eden' is a religious allegory that is described as being false, this therefore could create a sense of fear in the girl because the setting is not comforting.
When the girl is inside that Beast's 'palazzo' she sees 'suites of vaulted chambers', the place is in no way inviting.

Another Gothic element that Carter has used in The Tiger's Bride is the supernatural. The beast, for instance, 'wears a mask with a man's face painted' on it. This shows that the beast is not human and he has tried to create a way to compensate for that by wearing a mask that covers his face. In addition to this, the supernatural is portrayed when the Servant to the Beast tells the girl that 'nothing human lives here', implying that the Beast is not human and that he himself may not be human as well.

Carter blurs the role of humans and animals. The Beast is seen as having human characteristics, such as the ability to speak, and understand what other humans are saying to him, yet his actual body is a tiger. This is also shown again in the line 'the Beast had given his horses the use of the dining room'. When the girl walks into the 'palazzo' this is what she sees and it is incongruous because under normal circumstances horses would be kept outside because they are animals but because the lines between human and animal have been blurred this can be viewed as normal.

The Gothic element of class is also explored by Carter in The Tiger's Bride, the girl adresses the Beast as 'Master' or 'milord'. This shows that even though she is there against her will she is still speaking to him with respect.

Carter includes the Gothic elements of fear and horror in The Tiger's Bride, such as the fear that is created in the girl's father when he realises that he is going to lose his daughter to the Beast. However, her father grief can be seen as insincere and he only wants to gain the girls forgiveness so he can soothe his guilty conscience, 'My tear-beslobbered father wants a rose to show that I forgive him. In the same sentence Carter is able to create some horror in the story because as the girl gives her father the rose, 'I prick my finger and so he gets his rose all smeared with blood'. The pure, white rose has been tainted with her blood.