Gothic fiction

Gothic fiction is a type of fiction which combines parts of both horror and romance. The genre is said to have started in England in 1764 with Horace Walpole's book The Castle of Otranto. The Castle of Otranto's second edition was subtitled A Gothic Story. The idea quickly spread to other European languages.

A famous early example of gothic fiction is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, in the early 19th Century. Edgar Allen Poe's work and Bram Stoker's Dracula were written later.

Gothic Fiction Media

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  The ruins of Wolf's Crag castle in Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)

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  Strawberry Hill, southwest London, an English villa in the "Gothic Revival" style, built by Gothic writer Horace Walpole

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  The Gothic Temple folly in Stowe Gardens, Buckinghamshire, built as a ruin in 1741, designed by James Gibbs

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  The Castle of Otranto (1764) is regarded as the first Gothic novel. The aesthetics of the book have shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music and the goth subculture.

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  Minerva Press notice in London from October 1795 listing new publications, including many Gothic titles.

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  Catherine Morland, the naive protagonist of Northanger Abbey (1818), Jane Austen's Gothic parody

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  "The Vampyre" by John William Polidori published in The New Monthly Magazine, 1 April 1819.

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