Gothic fiction, sometimes referred to as Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. Gothicism's origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, subtitled "A Gothic Story". The effect of Gothic fiction feeds on a pleasing sort of terror, an extension of Romantic literary pleasures that were relatively new at the time of Walpole's novel. Melodr...
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Books In This Genre:
- Dracula ,
- Carmilla ,
- Frankenstein ,
- The Picture of Dorian Gray ,
- Northanger Abbey ,
- The Phantom of the Opera ,
- The Sound and the Fury ,
- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ,
- The Misfortunes of Virtue ,
- The Marble Faun
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- Gothic novel
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