Victorian Gothic literature, a genre started in Britain in the eighteenth century, is a genre that mixes romantic and horror conventions. It is based on Edmund Burke’s theory of the sublime and it was influenced by German writers of the time. It was extremely popular with readers of the Victorian era and thus considered only a fad by the critics. Since the eighteenth century was a revolutionary time, the genre was also greatly influenced by the French Revolution. However, authors of the Victorian Gothic also drew their inspiration from another revolutionary poet, John Milton. Milton’s Paradise Lost has had a great influence on Victorian Gothic literature, especially the Miltonic Satan, who is the prototype of a Gothic hero called the Satanic hero or the hero-villain. The main characteristics of the Satanic hero are excessive pride, vanity and self-love, which is often sexual, a perverted family surrounding, exaggerated promiscuity and the wish to corrupt and destroy others. This character also frequently changes his appearance in order to deceive. His condemnation is inevitable because he is too weak to choose what is moral and right, and instead chooses what is pleasurable only for him. This type of a hero is a parody of the epic hero and a total opposite of the biblical hero. One can see all these characteristics in the heroes of Matthew Gregory Lewis’s The Monk, Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya, or the Moor and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Except for the characteristics mentioned, the garden metaphor also points to a strong Miltonic influence.