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  2. Gothic fiction - Wikipedia

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    Gothic fiction is characterized by an environment of fear, the threat of supernatural events, and the intrusion of the past upon the present. [ 2 ][ 3 ] The setting typically includes physical reminders of the past, especially through ruined buildings which stand as proof of a previously thriving world which is decaying in the present. [ 4 ]

  3. Lenore (ballad) - Wikipedia

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    Lenore had a profound effect on the development of Romantic literature throughout Europe [10] and a strong influence on the English ballad-writing revival of the 1790s. [11] According to German language scholar John George Robertson, [8] [Lenore] exerted a more widespread influence than perhaps any other short poem in the literature of the world.

  4. Ann Radcliffe - Wikipedia

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    Gothic. 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 her day ...

  5. Goblin Market - Wikipedia

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    Goblin Market. Goblin Market (composed in April 1859 and published in 1862) is a narrative poem by Christina Rossetti. It tells the story of Laura and Lizzie who are tempted with fruit by goblin merchants. [1] In a letter to her publisher, Rossetti claimed that the poem, which is interpreted frequently as having features of remarkably sexual ...

  6. La Belle Dame sans Merci - Wikipedia

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    The poem is about a fairy who condemns a knight to an unpleasant fate after she seduces him with her eyes and singing. The fairy inspired several artists to paint images that became early examples of 19th-century femme fatale iconography. [3] The poem continues to be referred to in many works of literature, music, art, and film.

  7. Manfred - Wikipedia

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    Scene from Byron's "Manfred", by Thomas Cole, 1833. Manfred: A dramatic poem is a closet drama written in 1816–1817 by Lord Byron. It contains supernatural elements, in keeping with the popularity of the ghost story in England at the time. It is a typical example of a Gothic fiction. Byron commenced this work in late 1816, a few months after ...

  8. Ligeia - Wikipedia

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    Ligeia. Illustration of "Ligeia" by Harry Clarke, 1919. " Ligeia " (/ laɪˈdʒiːə /) is an early short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1838. The story follows an unnamed narrator and his wife Ligeia, a beautiful and intelligent raven-haired woman. She falls ill, composes "The Conqueror Worm", and quotes lines ...

  9. List of gothic fiction works - Wikipedia

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    Algernon Blackwood, The Willows (1907) Robert Bloch, Black Bargain (1942) and Psycho (1959) Petrus Borel, Champavert, contes immoraux (1833) Marjorie Bowen, Black Magic: a Tale of the Rise and Fall of the Antichrist (1909) Ray Bradbury, The Fog Horn (1951) Ivo Brešan, Cathedral (2007) [2]