Possible Clues:

• Like Shelley's 'Frankenstein'
• Like some romance novels
• Like some architecture or typefaces
• Brought here from Rome, as some Germans were
• Like 'Wuthering Heights'
• Obtained this Latin, lurid style
• Got started to be put up in the old style
• To become endlessly stupid is horrifying
• Novel category
• Contracted the beginning of the hiccups in style