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Page from the Greek Magical Papyri, a grimoire of antiquity. A grimoire (also known as a "book of spells", "magic book", or a "spellbook") is a textbook of magic, typically including instructions on how to create magical objects like talismans and amulets, how to perform magical spells, charms, and divination, and how to summon or invoke supernatural entities such as angels, spirits, deities ...
Marjorie Bowen, Black Magic: a Tale of the Rise and Fall of the Antichrist (1909) Ray Bradbury, The Fog Horn (1951) Ivo Brešan, Cathedral (2007) [2] Poppy Z. Brite, Lost Souls (1992) and Exquisite Corpse (1996) Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847) and Villette (1850) Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847)
Print/export Download as PDF ... move to sidebar hide. Help. Short stories in the genre of gothic fiction . See also Category:Horror ... Text is available under the ...
The Wenceslas workshop produced exceptional examples of Gothic book illustration between 1387 and 1405. These include the six-volume Wenceslas Bible, [54] the Golden Bull, [15] and a manuscript of Willehalm. [55] It is worth noting that the work during this period is highly regarded for its quality and attention to detail.
The eighteenth-century Gothic novel is a genre of Gothic fiction published between 1764 and roughly 1820, which had the greatest period of popularity in the 1790s. These works originated the term "Gothic" to refer to stories which evoked the sentimental and supernatural qualities of medieval romance with the new genre of the novel .
It is also known as the Honorian alphabet or the Runes of Honorius after the legendary magus (though Theban is dissimilar to the Germanic runic alphabet), or the witches' alphabet due to its use in modern Wicca and other forms of witchcraft as one of many substitution ciphers to hide magical writings such as the contents of a Book of Shadows ...
The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796 across three volumes.Written early in Lewis's career, it was published before he turned twenty, and he withheld his name from the first edition.
Southern Gothic particularly focuses on the South's history of slavery, racism, fear of the outside world, violence, a "fixation with the grotesque, and a tension between realistic and supernatural elements". [4] Similar to the elements of the Gothic castle, Southern Gothic depicts the decay of the plantation in the post-Civil War South. [4]