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The Gothic: from Dracula to The Shining

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Lovecraft's Gothic Novels

There are versions of the gothic which have, you know, obvious kind of progenitors. ar anne radcliffe wrote these classic gothic romances set in remote castles. edgar allan poe is a really important figure, i think, for this the short story. And then someone like h g. Wells fuses the old gothic with modern scientific romance,. what we now called science fiction.

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