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Gothic fiction

Gothic fiction, often referred to as Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a literary aesthetic of fear and haunting. The name of the genre is derived from the Renaissance-era use of the word "gothic", as a pejorative term meaning medieval and barbaric, which itself originated from Gothic architecture and in turn the Goths.

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related to Contemporary Gothic · 57
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related to Nineteenth-century Gothic fiction · 39
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related to Gothic romances · 35
Gothic fiction → After, Alicen White, Ann Radcliffe's, Barbara Michaels, British, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Clarissa Ross, Dan Ross, Dorothy Eden, Frank Belknap Long, Gothic, Gothic Romance, Gothics, Horace Walpole's The Castle, However, Joan Aiken, Love Spell, Lyda Belknap Long, Madeleine Brent, Many
related to Twentienth-century Gothic fiction · 30
Gothic fiction → Angela Carter, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorian Gray, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Eliot, From, Gothic, Great Famine, In America, In Joyce's Ulysses, Ireland, James Joyce, Literature, Lovecraft, Lovecraft's, Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan, Modernism, Mythos, Oscar Wilde's The Picture, Poe
related to Second generation or Jüngere Romantik · 25
Gothic fiction → Although, Byron, Byronic, Byronic Lord Ruthven, Christopher Frayling, For, Frankenstein, Frankenstein's, Glenarvon, Gothic, John William Polidori, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lady Caroline's Gothic, Lake Geneva, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Mary Shelley's, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Polidori's
related to External links · 18
Gothic fiction → Archived, BBC Radio, British Library, Chris Baldick, December, Emma Clery, Fiction Bookshelf, Gothic, Gothic Imagination, Horror StudiesGothic, In Our Time, Jan, July, May, Project GutenbergIrish Journal, Wayback Machine, Wayback MachineKey, Wilson
related to The Female Gothic · 17
Gothic fiction → Ann Radcliffe, At, Authors, Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte Dacre, Dacre's Zofloya, Female Gothic, From, Gothic, Guided, In, Jane Austen, Mary Robinson, Mary Shelley, The, The Moor, Victoria
related to Role of architecture · 14
Gothic fiction → English, English Gothic, Enlightened Establishment, Gothic, Gothic Revival, Gothic Revivalists, Including, It, Manfred's, Neoclassical, Otranto, The, The Castle, This
see also · 10
Gothic fiction → AestheticismAmerican Gothic, American GothicList, English Gothic NovelGaslamp, GothicSymbolism, Minerva Press, MovementEighteenth-century Gothic, PressSouthern GothicSouthern Ontario GothicSuburban, Revolution, Tasmanian GothicUrban GothicWeird, WesternIrish Gothic
related to Development of Gothic aesthetics · 8
Gothic fiction → Clive Bloom, Fonthill Abbey, Gothic, In Britain, It, The, This, Walpole

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