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The Horror Classic Phenomena in Latvian Literature
This article gives an insight into the horror fiction genre in Latvian literature, from folklore to modern literary works
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Supernaturalism in Traditional New Zealand Gothic Fiction
Like any genre or mode, the Gothic is malleable, changing according to time and place
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Authorship and the Uncanny: The Horror House of Fiction
Henry James’s ‘The Private Life’ disturbingly indicates that authorship demands that the writer must suffer a separation into two distinct…
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Victorian Gothic Mania in the Eighteenth-Century
The birth of Gothic as a genre of fiction, the “Gothic novel”, and all its numerous successors came about as…
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Sexuality, Gender, and Space in the Neo-Victorian Novels
Sarah Waters takes sensation one step further by removing patriarchal control altogether, providing a space for lesbians to write a…
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Art-Horror and Natural Horror: What’s the Difference?
In his dissection of the horror genre of art, Noël Carroll makes a distinction between art-horror, and natural horror.
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The Birth of a Nation’s Gothicism to Transcendentalism
It is not surprising that the Gothic novel was the literary genre that emerged as the only one likely to…
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Race and Gender in Early Horror and Science Fiction
The great science-fiction writer Samuel Ray Delany Jr. has asserted that the best science fiction offers “significant distortions of the…
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Recurring Cultural Work of the Gothic and Zombie Fiction
The maniacal faces of the reanimated corpses laughing and celebrating in the face of mortality draw clear parallels between anxieties…
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Vernon Lee: Weird Psychological Lovecraftian Aesthetics
Here I situate the supernatural fiction and essays of Vernon Lee in relation to the work of the weird horror…
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The Puritan Beginnings of North American Gothic Horror
Gothic horror arrived in North America in the latter half of the eighteenth-century as one of many imports, both literary…
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The Spectral Other and the Erotic Uncanny Melancholy
Standing always under the sign of longing is the dangerous lover — the one whose eroticism lies in his dark…
