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I Waked One Morning From a Dream: What Is Gothic Literature?

There have been many nights when I’ve laid awake wondering: What makes a book Gothic? Who decides what is and isn’t Gothic fiction? And why, why, why do I keep reading them?

It’s time to reveal the truth about Gothic literature. Together, we’ll unravel the fragments, falsehoods and frame narratives to separate fact from fiction. Interrogate Gothic literature’s most renowned writers – including Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis. And find out why this obscure, 200-year-old genre is still haunting us today.

#18thCentury #19thCentury #20thCentury #AnnRadcliffe #AnneRice #BramStoker #Falsehood #Fragment #FrameNarrative #HoraceWalpole #MarkZDanielewski #MaryShelley #MatthewLewis #MaxBrooks #ShirleyJackson #StephenKing

https://gothicdispatch.com/what-is-gothic-literature-introductio/

A young woman is sitting in a chair reading a story which has made her nervous. Source: Wellcome Images

A watercolour painting of Strawberry Hill House.

Victor Frankenstein looks on with disgust at his creation.

“Though the machinery is invention, and the names of the actors imaginary, I cannot but believe that the ground-work of the story is founded on truth. The scene is undoubtedly laid in some real castle.”

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Hermetic quote Walpole The Castle of Otranto machinery invention names actors imaginary cannot but believe ground work story founded truth scene undoubtedly laid some real castle

Conheça o primeiro livro de terror da história! O Castelo de Otranto, do autor Horace Walpole, é considerado o primeiro livro gótico da história.
Confira:
#ocastelodeotranto #horacewalpole #literaturagotica #livrosdeterror

https://geekpopnews.com.br/o-castelo-de-otranto-conheca-o-primeiro-livro-de-terror-da-historia/

Celebrating Horace Walpole, born on the 24th September, whose novel The Castle of Otranto (1764), marked the birth of the Gothic genre.

Walpole woke up one night from a nightmare of a ghost, and a ‘giant hand in armour’. Like his successors Mary Shelley and R.L.Stevenson, Walpole put his scary dream to literary use, and so the Castle of Otranto was born.

Happy Birthday, Horace!

#birthdayboy #gothicliterature #horacewalpole #gothicwriter