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The works of the Graveyard School continued to be popular into the early 19th century and were instrumental in the development of the Gothic novel, contributing to the dark, mysterious mood and story lines that characterize the genre — Graveyard School writers focused their writings on the lives of ordinary and unidentified characters.
Down a Dark Hall was originally published on September 26, 1974 by Little, Brown and Company in hardcover. [1] [2] Duncan began writing the book after an editor, who had never seen a gothic novel aimed at young adults, suggested she try coming up with one. [3] Down a Dark Hall is the only gothic novel that Duncan ever wrote. [4]
Dark Romanticism is a literary sub-genre of Romanticism, reflecting popular fascination with the irrational, the demonic and the grotesque. Often conflated with Gothic fiction , it has shadowed the euphoric Romantic movement ever since its 18th-century beginnings.
Gothic literature is strongly associated with the Gothic Revival architecture of the same era. English Gothic writers often associated medieval buildings with what they saw as a dark and terrifying period, marked by harsh laws enforced by torture and with mysterious, fantastic, and superstitious rituals.
The great Gothic wave, which stretches from 1764 with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto to around 1818-1820, features ghosts, castles and terrifying characters; Satanism and the supernatural are favorite subjects; for instance, Ann Radcliffe presents sensitive, persecuted young girls who evolve in a frightening universe where secret doors open onto visions of horror, themes even more ...
According to Jon Garrad, grimdark is associated with the gothic movement of the 1990s and its negativity and emphasis on loss. [ 8 ] Writing in The Guardian in 2016, Damien Walter summarized what he considered grimdark's "domination" of the fantasy genre as "bigger swords, more fighting, bloodier blood, more fighting, axes, more fighting", and ...
Arthur Mervyn is a novel written by Charles Brockden Brown.Published in 1799, Arthur Mervyn, one of Brown's more popular novels, represents Brown's dark, gothic style and subject matter, and is recognized as one of the most influential works of American and Philadelphia Gothic literature.
Frank Belknap Long, So Dark a Heritage (1966) Jane Loudon, The Mummy! (1827) H. P. Lovecraft, The Outsider (1921), The Rats in the Walls (1923), The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927) Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky, The Bear Wedding (1923)