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  2. The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest - Wikipedia

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    The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest. The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest is a Gothic novel written by Karl Friedrich Kahlert under the alias Lawrence Flammenberg and translated by Peter Teuthold that was first published in 1794. It is one of the seven 'horrid novels' lampooned by Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey. [ 1 ]

  3. List of gothic fiction works - Wikipedia

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    M. R. James, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories (1911), A Thin Ghost and Others (1919) and A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925) Elfriede Jelinek, Die Kinder der Toten (1995) Rikard Jorgovanić, Love upon the Catafalque (1876), Dada (1878) and A Wife and a Lover (1878)

  4. Gothic fiction - Wikipedia

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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. [1] Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting.

  5. Tales of Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    Tales of Manhattan is a 1942 American anthology film directed by Julien Duvivier. Thirteen writers, including Ben Hecht, Alan Campbell, Ferenc Molnár, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Donald Ogden Stewart, worked on the six stories in this film. Based on the Mexican writer Francisco Rojas González 's novel, Historia de un frac ("Story of a Tailcoat ...

  6. Ann Radcliffe - Wikipedia

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    Ann Radcliffe. Ann Radcliffe (née Ward; 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English novelist, a pioneer of Gothic fiction, and a minor poet. Her technique of explaining apparently supernatural elements in her novels has been credited with gaining respectability for Gothic fiction in the 1790s. [1] Radcliffe was the most popular writer of ...

  7. Tailcoat - Wikipedia

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    A tailcoat is a knee-length coat characterised by a rear section of the skirt (known as the tails), with the front of the skirt cut away. The tailcoat shares its historical origins in clothes cut for convenient horse-riding in the Early Modern era. From the 18th century, however, tailcoats evolved into general forms of day and evening formal ...

  8. A Good Man Is Hard to Find (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Publication date. 1953. " A Good Man Is Hard to Find " is a Southern gothic short story first published in 1953 by author Flannery O'Connor who, in her own words, described it as "the story of a family of six which, on its way driving to Florida [from Georgia], is slaughtered by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit".

  9. The Old English Baron - Wikipedia

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    The Old English Baron is an early Gothic novel by the English author Clara Reeve. It was first published under this title in 1778, although it had anonymously appeared in 1777 under its original name of The Champion of Virtue, before Samuel Richardson 's daughter, Mrs Bridgen, had edited it for her. Apart from typographical errors, the revision ...