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Uncle Silas, subtitled "A Tale of Bartram Haugh", is an 1864 Victorian Gothic mystery-thriller novel by the Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu.Despite Le Fanu resisting its classification as such, the novel has also been hailed as a work of sensation fiction by contemporary reviewers and modern critics alike.
The genre is named "Gothic" because "its imaginative impulse was drawn from medieval buildings and ruins, such novels commonly used such settings as castles or monasteries equipped with ...
The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (Spanish:La Torre de los Siete Jorobados) is a 1920 novel by the Spanish writer Emilio Carrere. It is a gothic mystery with elements of horror set in 19th-century Madrid. The body of the story itself is cobbled together from several of Carrere's pre-existing short stories.
, The Mystery of the Black Tower (1796) Gilbert Parker, The Lane that Had No Turning, and Other Tales Concerning the People of Pontiac (1900) Eliza Parsons, The Castle of Wolfenbach (1793) and The Mysterious Warning (1796) Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey (1818) Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast trilogy (1946-1955) Pyotr Pletnyov, The Gravedigger ...
The mystery under investigation is the identity and motive of 'the Phantom' who lurks through the opera house, seemingly appearing out of nowhere as if by magic in inaccessible places. But, it seems that the mystery novel frame story is a façade for the genre being more a Gothic romance. [11]
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (/ ˈ l ɛ f ən. j uː /; [1] [2] 28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction.He was a leading ghost story writer of his time, central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. [3]
The Castle of Otranto (1764) is regarded as the first Gothic novel. The aesthetics of the book have shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music and the goth subculture. [28] The first work to call itself "Gothic" was Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). [1]
Reeve noted in the 1778 preface that "This Story is the literary offspring of The Castle of Otranto, written upon the same plan, with a design to unite the most attractive and interesting circumstances of the ancient Romance and modern Novel, at the same time it assumes a character and manner of its own, that differs from both; it is distinguished by the appellation of a Gothic Story, being a ...