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unusual facts about gothic novel



Adventures into the Unknown

The premiere included a seven-page, abridged adaptation of Horace Walpole's seminal gothic novel The Castle of Otranto, by an unknown writer and artist Al Ulmer.

Espedair Street

As Banks' first novel to eschew 'special effects', not being Gothic horror like The Wasp Factory, a literary mystery (Walking on Glass), or science fiction, most critics regard it as one of his most accessible works.

Fernando Wood

His Spanish forename was chosen by his mother, who found it in an English gothic novel written by George Walker, The Three Spaniards (London, 1800).

Guestwick

who is best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818).

Illusions perdues

(5) Introduced into narrative fiction by the Gothic novel (The Castle of Otranto, The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Monk), melodrama was widespread in literature around the time when Illusions perdues was written.

Jarno Sarkula

Despite his unshakable demeanor Sarkula entertained audiences with his verbal acrobatics which often had gothic undertones and even by doing skits relating to games he was reviewing (while reviewing Serious Sam he did an imitation of the Headless Screaming creatures in the game).

Les Chants de Maldoror

Much of the imagery was borrowed from the popular gothic literature of the period, in particular Lord Byron's Manfred, Charles Robert Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer and Goethe's Faust.

Paul Féval, père

Féval returned to the theme of vampirism with La Ville Vampire (1867) the ultimate literary ancestor of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in which the protagonist is Gothic novel writer Ann Radcliffe herself.

The Curse of Frankenstein

It also marked the beginning of a Gothic horror revival in the cinema on both sides of the Atlantic, paralleling the rise to fame of Universal's Dracula and Frankenstein series in the 1930s.

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Often cited as the archetypal Gothic novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, along with Radcliffe's novel "The Romance of the Forest," plays a prominent role in Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey, in which an impressionable young woman, after reading Radcliffe's novel, comes to see her friends and acquaintances as Gothic villains and victims with amusing results.


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Dacre Stoker

Dacre Calder Stoker (born 23 August 1958) is a Canadian-American author, sportsman and filmmaker, and the great-grand nephew of Irish author Bram Stoker, who authored the 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.

Phantom Ship

The Phantom Ship, a Gothic novel about the legend of the Flying Dutchman

Phyllis Hartnoll

A collection of her poems The maid's song and other poems was published by Macmillan in 1938 and she wrote the introduction to the Gothic novel Zastrozzi by Percy Bysshe Shelley which was republished in a limited edition by The Golden Cockerel Press in 1955.

Vicente Grondona

The coloniser, represented by books on English literature such as Mary Shelley's gothic novel, Frankenstein, become a display of humanist knowledge where ideas of romance, nature and horror are contrasted to the portrait of the noble savage.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

In 1816 Caroline published a Gothic novel Glenarvon, which portrayed both the marriage and her affair with Byron in a lurid fashion which caused William even greater embarrassment, while the spiteful caricatures of leading society figures made them several influential enemies.

Zofloya

The novel is criticised for too closely mirroring The Monk, a prominent Gothic Novel published only ten years before by Matthew Lewis.