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Gothic fiction

Gothic fiction (sometimes referred to as Gothic horror) is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. As a genre, it is generally believed to have been invented by the English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto. 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. Melodrama and parody (including self-parody) were other long-standing features of the Gothic initiated by Walpole.Excerpted from Gothic fiction on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

A bandaged figure standing in front of a Grandfather Clock
"The Masque of the Red Death" illustrated by Harry Clarke (1919)

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