Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Virgins, Tyrants & Castles

Virgins, Tyrants & Castles: A Brief History of Gothic Fiction on AbeBooks: Gothic fiction has a long history and was created by a man called Horace. Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, to give him his full title, wrote The Castle of Otranto in 1764 and launched a genre that has chilled and thrilled many readers, and padded the wallets of countless authors.

Gothic fiction is also labeled as gothic horror but it can be called gothic romance too as love, passion and lust are essential elements – think of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera or The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Dracula, the title character from the 1897 novel, is the ultimate gothic villain.

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