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Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting. The name refers to Gothic architecture of the European Middle Ages, which was characteristic of the settings of early Gothic novels. The first work to call itself Gothic was Horace Walpole's 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, later subtitled "A Gothic Story". Subsequent 18th-century contributors included Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Thomas Beckford, and Matthew Lewis. The Gothic influence continued into the early 19th century; works by the Romantic poets, and novelists such as Mary Shelley, Charles Maturin, Walter Scott and E. T. A. Hoffmann frequently drew upon gothic motifs in their works. The early Victorian period continued the use of gothic aesthetic in novels by Charles Dickens and the Brontë sisters, as well as works by the American writers Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Later well-known works were Dracula by Bram Stoker, Richard Marsh's The Beetle and Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Twentieth-century contributors include Daphne du Maurier, Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Anne Rice, and Toni Morrison. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Works in the genre Gothic fiction 128
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Mexican Gothic
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Plain Bad Heroines
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The Boatman's Daughter
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Between the Spark and the Burn
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Prince Lestat
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Christopher's Diary: Secrets of Foxworth
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The Accursed
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
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The Wolves of Midwinter
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Afterlife
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Graveminder
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...Și la sfârșit a mai rămas coșmarul
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Hourglass
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Little Hands Clapping
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Stargazer
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Las sirenas del alma
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From Dead to Worse
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Evernight
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Persistence of Memory
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El e-mail del mal
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Milrose Munce and the Den of Professional Help
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Lisey's Story
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Storm Thief
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The Book of Renfield
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Let the Right One In
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Varjak Paw
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Coraline
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Living Dead in Dallas
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Gothic Hospital
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The Shadow of the Wind
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The Austere Academy
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The Wide Window
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