Gothic Hospital

{{short description|2001 book by Gary Crew}} {{Use Australian English|date=January 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox book | italic title =  | name = Gothic Hospital | image = File:GothicHospital.jpg | image_size = | border = | alt = | caption = | author = [[Gary Crew]] | audio_read_by = | title_orig = | orig_lang_code = | title_working = | translator = | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = | language = | series = | release_number = | subject = | genre = Horror | set_in = | publisher = [[Lothian Books]] | publisher2 = | pub_date = 2001 | english_pub_date = | published = | media_type = Print | pages = 160 pages | awards = | isbn = 0734402325 | isbn_note = First edition paperback | oclc = | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by = | followed_by = | native_wikisource = | wikisource = | notes = | exclude_cover = | website = }}

'''''Gothic Hospital''''' is a 2001 young adult horror novel by Australian author [[Gary Crew]].<ref>{{cite web|title= ''Gothic Hospital'' by Gary Crew|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1600501 |access-date= 15 January 2025}}</ref>

''Gothic Hospital'' was first published in Australia in 2001 through [[Lothian Books]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Crew, Gary, 1947-|title=Gothic hospital|date=2001|publisher=Lothian|isbn=0-7344-0232-5|location=Port Melbourne, Victoria|oclc=51341315}}</ref>

==Synopsis== The book focuses on a teenager named Johnny Doolan who discovers many old [[gothic novel|gothic books]] in his attic after his younger sister dies of [[tuberculosis]], which results in his parents breaking up. The books' chapters are replaced by "sessions" as the book is partly set at a [[psychiatrist]]'s office.

In the book, Johnny claims to his psychiatrist that when he reads the books in his attic, the book "fills itself in" with colour, and Johnny becomes part of the story. One book Johnny particularly becomes engrossed in, is a book about an old Gothic [[hospital]], and Johnny eventually believes that his father is trapped in the book.

== Excerpt == An excerpt from the novel was published in ''The Courier-Mail'' in May 2001.<ref>{{cite web|title="Hospital of fear" |publisher= The Courier-Mail, 29 may 2001|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/354588842|access-date= 15 January 2025|id= {{ProQuest|354588842}}}}</ref>

== Further reading ==

* {{Cite book|last=Smith|first=Anna|title=The gothic in children's literature : haunting the borders|date=2008|publisher=Routledge|others=Jackson, Anna, 1967-, Coats, Karen, 1963-, McGillis, Roderick.|isbn=978-0-415-96036-6|location=New York|chapter=The Scary Tale Looks for a Family: Gary Crew’s 'Gothic Hospital' and Sonya Hartnett’s 'The Devil Latch'|oclc=77476485}}

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == {{Portal|Children and Young Adult Literature}} * http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/gary-crew/gothic-hospital.htm * http://www.tabula-rasa.info/AusHorror/GothicHospital.html

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