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Going GothicRead, Watch, Play (and Write)
Rachel Franks @cfwriter
Horror at the Metcalfe: 12 March 2014
. . . spectres, monsters,
demons, corpses, skeletons,
evil aristocrats, monks and
nuns, fainting heroines and
bandits populate . . .
scientists, fathers, husbands,
madmen, criminals and the
monstrous double . . .
Character
The very good and the very
bad
The facilitation of extreme
emotions
Language
Classic and modern
Philosophical and religious
debates
Setting
Bleak rural and metropolitan
places
The weather is never very
good
Story
The idea of the secret
The battle between good and
evil
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Watch
Play
(and Write)
The English Beginnings
Horace WalpoleThe Castle of Otranto (1764)
Ann RadcliffeThe Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre (1847) and Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights (1847)
Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
The American Tradition
Charles Brockden BrownWieland (1798)
Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlett Letter (1850)
Some Modern Examples
Dean Koontz Almost anything will do. . .
Anne Rice The Vampire Chronicles (1976-2003)
Susan Hill The Woman in Black (1983)
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Watch
Play
(and Write)
Nosferatu (1922)
Rebecca (1940)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
True Detective (2014)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXwCoNwBSkQ
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Watch
Play
(and Write)
Games
Read
Watch
Play
(and Write)
Gothic Horror
Gothic Romanticism
Classic Gothic
Modern Gothic
Southern Gothic