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The Gothic: from Dracula to The Shining

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Gothic Global Spread

Gothic is like a tool kit, which provides you with images and narratives. You can adapt them in incredibly e flexible ways. In england the vampire emerges as this figure of perhaps foreign contamination. But elsewhere it can lock into local narratives of superstition. So that's why i think is like a an mythology,. lots bits and pieces that you can pick and choose from and turn into different hybrids across the world.

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