While the Gothic has long been associated with monsters, haunted houses, unstable hierarchies, and hidden knowledge, the servant's specific connections to the genre's core dynamics of space, affect, and plot have been critically undertheorized. Yet Gothic narratives fundamentally depend upon servant figures to produce narrative tension, mediate hidden knowledge, and expose the instability of domestic, social, and political order. This panel therefore positions the Gothic servant not as a supplementary character but as a central Gothic mechanism and epistemological problem worthy of scholarly attention and analysis. We invite panelists to consider the following types of questions: In what ways does the servant function as a Gothic mechanism, producing narrative tension, circulating forbidden knowledge, and exposing the instability of domestic and class order? How do the servant's social and/or affective roles (as caregiver, confidante, observer, jailer, etc.) shape Gothic plots and complicate power hierarchies within Gothic narratives? How does the servant's structural invisibility produce, rather than merely reflect, Gothic preoccupations with spectrality, repression, identity and/or power? Topics may include but are not limited to: servants as uncanny, spectral, or monstrous figures; servants as central to Gothic plot and narrative structure; servants, secrecy, and forbidden knowledge; race, coloniality, and servitude in imperial and postcolonial Gothic; invisibility and the Gothic politics of service; servant figures in contemporary Gothic; and the afterlives of Gothic servant characters in adaptation and other media. We welcome papers on servant characters in Gothic texts from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, from any geographical area.