The Gothic: from Dracula to The Shining
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Folklore in Gothic Films
The use of folk lore goes all the way back to the beginning of the gothic. Slender man's really good example of this, an internet myth that has emerged just through leaking of this story into technology. So you can see folklore as being really central to the g Gothic and actually that roots it in really ancient, centuries old set of traditions.
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