Teen Gothic

So, obviously gothic literature as a genre isn't the basis of goth the subculture, and honestly I think the gothic as a literary tradition has a lot less influence on early goth than Fin De Siecle decadent literature (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, etc) which was also important to many punks (see Tom Verlaine etc) and 20th century avante-garde figures especially French and German (Cocteau, Jean Genet, the whole of German Expressionism). Like obviously Byron and Shelley are in there, but they're fundamentally part of the Romantic movement. The Gothic, in any of its iterations from the 18th century to the 1960s-1970s Gothic romance, seems to be largely disconnected from Goth as a subculture in its early iterations)

Goth at its inception is very literate and references experimental literature frequently, which is interesting because punk seems to have produced more novelists who get “literary cred” like Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper, Jim Carroll etc.

So why is that? What literature are you aware of that influenced the music?