Gothic Horror: Literary Genres Series.
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Horror is a genre of fiction that creates feelings of terror and the subgenre, gothic horror, uses literary devices to unsettle, startle and shock: eerie and mysterious settings; the use of suspense and terror; and strange or supernatural happenings. In 1818 Mary Shelley published "Frankenstein". Later Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Raven", and Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" shocked readers. Bram Stoker's "Dracula" popularized the genre in 1897. In 1962 Shirley Jackson wrote her psychological tale, "We Have Always Lived in the Castle". The recent dystopian story, "Masque of the Red Death", by Bethany Griffin was inspired by the first gothic writers. Today, gothic horror still gives us a fright through television, theater, and film.
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