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    Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting. The name refers to...
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  • American gothic fiction is a subgenre of gothic fiction. Elements specific to American Gothic include: rationality versus the irrational, puritanism, guilt...
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    Southern Gothic is an artistic subgenre of fiction, country music, film, theatre, and television that are heavily influenced by Gothic elements and the...
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  • Victorian Gothic Raygun Gothic a retrofuturist visual style coined by William Gibson in 1981 Gothic fiction or Gothic Romanticism, a literary genre Gothic (film)...
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    A Gothic film is a film that is based on Gothic fiction or common elements from such fictional works. Since various definite film genres—including science...
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    imagery and cultural proclivities indicate influences from 19th-century Gothic fiction and from horror films. The scene is centered on music festivals, nightclubs...
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  • Gothic fiction (sometimes referred to as Gothic horror or Gothic romanticism) is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror fiction and...
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  • The eighteenth-century Gothic novel is a genre of Gothic fiction published between 1764 and roughly 1820, which had the greatest period of popularity...
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    Crime fiction Dark fantasy Death metal Ghost stories Gothic fiction Monster literature Mystery fiction Speculative fiction Thriller Weird fiction Analog...
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  • vicariously through the writings of fiction. S. L. Varnado argues in Haunted Presence: The Numinous in Gothic Fiction that the beginning of an interest...
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  • Suburban Gothic is a subgenre of Gothic fiction, art, film and television, focused on anxieties associated with the creation of suburban communities, particularly...
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    Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of a particular real historical events. Although the term...
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    As the creator of Gothic fiction and as the author of The Castle of Otranto (1764), Horace Walpole, the creator of Gothic fiction noted the importance...
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    Urban Gothic is a sub-genre of Gothic fiction, film horror, and television dealing with industrial and post-industrial urban society. It was pioneered...
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  • most of the monsters of European gothic fiction, but often attached to the monstrous creatures created by weird fiction writers, such as William Hope Hodgson...
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  • Victorian gothic may refer to: Gothic fiction, a type of fiction writing that began in the Romantic period Gothic Revival architecture, a type of architecture...
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  • dark and introspective with inspiration from gothic fiction as well as personal experiences. Pioneers of gothic metal include Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride...
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    Latin American Gothic is a subgenre of Gothic fiction that draws on Gothic themes and aesthetics and adapts them to the political and geographical specificities...
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    Tasmanian Gothic is a genre of Tasmanian literature that merges traditions of Gothic fiction with the history and natural features of Tasmania, an island...
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    Dickens was influenced by gothic fiction and incorporated gothic imagery, settings and plot devices in his works. Victorian gothic moved from castles and...
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  • toy with Gothic fiction and gender, in a way that utilizes classic Gothic symbolism to push the narrative forward. She writes of Gothic fiction that "characters...
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    reviews. The novel covers a wide array of topics such as high society, Gothic fiction, bildungsroman, the value of reading, and the importance of time. This...
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  • The Crow (2024 film) (category American gothic fiction)
    adaptation and his take: "Whereas Alex Proyas' original was gloriously gothic and stylized, the new movie will be realistic, hard-edged and mysterious...
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    The Gothic double is a literary motif which refers to the divided personality of a character. Closely linked to the Doppelgänger, which first appeared...
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  • Flanders and some of the excesses of early Gothic fiction. A simpler, more literal example of transgressive fiction is Kate Chopin's The Awakening, in which...
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    complete list of books published by Anne Rice, an American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotica. She has sold nearly 100 million...
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    the irrational, the demonic and the grotesque. Often conflated with Gothic fiction, it has shadowed the euphoric Romantic movement ever since its 18th-century...
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    growth of the mass-marketing of fiction in the twentieth century: this includes the gothic novel, fantasy, science fiction, adventure novel, historical romance...
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  • composed by Michael Daugherty American gothic fiction, the American form of the gothic literary genre American Gothic (novel), a 1974 psychological horror...
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    standard literary and psychological concept applied especially to Gothic and horror fiction. Horror is the feeling of revulsion that usually follows a frightening...
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