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In more recent scholarships, critics have identified certain works as New Urban Gothic. These novels possess the qualities of the urban gothic novel while moving the setting to include more diverse urban spaces. For example, Gina Wisker identifies Sandi Tan's The Black Isle (2012) as an example of an urban gothic set in Singapore. In the novel, Singapore exists as a Gothic city haunted by the ghosts of war and colonialism. The film Suzhou River (2000) also uses Gothic elements to depict the city of Shanghai. Urban gothic elements from the Victorian era carry over to twenty-first century dystopian novels, such as The City and the City by China Miéville.

From the late 1980s urban Gothic-influenced comics were the basis for a number of films that drew on dark city landscapes, including: Batman (1989), The Crow (1994), From Hell (2001)