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Thomas M. Disch, The Priest: A Gothic Romance (1994) Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, The Double (1846), The Landlady (1847), Bobok (1873) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880) Arthur Conan Doyle, Lot No. 249 (1892) Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn (1936), Rebecca (1938) and My Cousin Rachel (1951) George du Maurier, Trilby (1894)
Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting. The name refers to Gothic architecture of the European Middle Ages , which was characteristic of the settings of early Gothic novels.
Authors who fall under the category of "New American Gothic" include: Flannery O'Connor, John Hawkes, J.D. Salinger, and Shirley Jackson. These writers rely on the use of private worlds to weave their Gothic intrigue, as such the destruction of the family unit is commonplace in the New American 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]
Writers of works in the Gothic fiction genre. Pages in category "Writers of Gothic fiction" The following 156 pages are in this category, out of 156 total. ...
Examples of this form of fiction are now rare, surviving only in a few collections. [2] One of the collections where a number of gothic bluebooks have been preserved is the Corvey Library. [3] Gothic bluebooks were descendants of the chapbook, trade in which had nearly disappeared by 1800. [4]