Thesis deals with the coverage of poetic aspects of Ukrainian Gothic prose of the second half of the XIX century – beginning of the XX century and the research of genesis of the Gothic genre in Ukraine.The worldwide aesthetic paradigm of Gothic literature has appeared also in Ukrainian culture and artistic processes. Its constitutive dominants are the threefold integrity of the main Gothic categories (mystery – intense expectation – fear). Therefore, proving the existence of this genre in Ukrainian literature helps to refute the fictional myth of the so-called «incompleteness» of the Ukrainian literary process.The originality of the Ukrainian Gothic, which is manifested in the appeal to its inexhaustible folklore subsoils, national demonology and somewhere in the ironic perception, is in implicit naturalism and reduction of the category of horror, in the contamination of phantasmagory with onyxual elements substantially replenishes with its originality and identity as an invariant of Gothic. The determinant of the stylistic uniqueness of Ukrainian Gothic literature is the individual authoring skills of some Ukrainian writers, in particular those who were influenced by poetics of Gothic, which, in turn, fits into the broader range of romantic and partly even of modernist aesthetics.In particular, in short stories, the representatives of Gothic stories are O. Avdykovskyi, M. Aleksandrovych, I. Barshchevskyi, Y. Budiak, K. Vanchenko-Pysanetskyi, I. Havryshkevych, H. Danylevskyi, Y. Zgharskyi, N. Kybalchych, N. Kobrynska, M. Kostomarov, A. Krushelnytskyi, F. Kudrynskyi, Kh. Kupriienko, B. Lepkyi, I. Lypa, I. Naumovych, M. Petrushevych, K. Polishchuk, V. Roskovshenko, L. Sapohivskyi, L. Starytska-Cherniakhivska, O. Storozhenko, M. Chaikovskyi, M. Yatskiv; in short stories – P. Kulish («The Fire Serpent»), H. Machtet («The Sworn Cossack»), O. Storozhenko («The Cursed Mark»), A. Chaikovskyi («Cossack's Revenge»); in the novel as a genre of long work – «Petrii and Dovbushchuky» by I. Franko.Gothic literarure in Ukraine was born in the depths of national folklore, crystallized its poetic continuum in the Baroque period but was originally developed in the era of Romanticism, polishing its own genre paradigm. National Gothic literature is very original. Due to its emblematic affinity with folklore, it retains a special national color and contains the rudiments of the collective genetic memory of our people, and therefore continues to develop actively and distinctively in the Ukrainian literary process.
