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As a result, dark fantasy cannot be solidly connected to a defining set of tropes. The term itself may refer collectively to tales that are either horror-based or fantasy-based. Some writers also use "dark fantasy" (or "Gothic fantasy") as an alternative description to "horror", because they feel the latter term is too lurid or vivid. [5]
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)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) has come to define Gothic fiction in the Romantic period. Frontispiece to 1831 edition shown. Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting.
In the view of Jared Shurin, grimdark fantasy has three key components: a grim and dark tone, a sense of realism (for example, monarchs are useless and heroes are flawed), and the agency of the protagonists: whereas in high fantasy everything is predestined and the tension revolves around how the heroes defeat the Dark Lord, grimdark is ...
Pages in category "Dark fantasy anime and manga" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 260 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Dark fantasy role-playing video games (5 C, 131 P) B. Video games based on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (5 P) C. Castlevania games (1 C, 31 P) Cthulhu Mythos video games ...
Southern Gothic (also known as Gothic Americana, or Dark Country) is a genre of American music rooted in early jazz, gospel, Americana, gothic rock and post-punk. [25] Its lyrics often focus on dark subject matter.
Lovecraftian horror, also called cosmic horror [2] or eldritch horror, is a subgenre of horror, fantasy fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible [3] more than gore or other elements of shock. [4] It is named after American author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937).