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gothic novel
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gothic novel

European Romantic, pseudo-medieval fiction with a prevailing atmosphere of mystery and terror. Such novels were often set in castles or monasteries equipped with subterranean passages, dark battlements, and hidden panels, and they had plots involving ghosts, madness, outrage, superstition, and revenge. Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto (1765) initiated the vogue, which peaked in the 1790s. Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) and The Italian (1797) are among the finest examples. Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk (1796) introduced more horrific elements into the English gothic. Gothic traits appear in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) and in the works of many major writers, and they persist today in thousands of paperback romances.
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Christie swore that Evans and his wife had many violent quarrels and it seems now like something out of Gothic fiction to realise that five years earlier this former special policeman had already murdered two women.
60 years on, notorious crime still chills blood by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
This is a brilliant pastiche of classic Gothic fiction from the Victorian era.
historical by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
Anderson carefully distinguishes between historical facts that inspired the novel and his highly imaginative and gothic fiction.
Anderson, M. T.: The pox party by Chaplin, Nancy / Kliatt
 
 
 
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