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B. Stefan Bachmann; Victor J. Banis; Iain Banks; Yevgeny Baratynsky; Eaton Stannard Barrett; Konstantin Batyushkov; Charles Beaumont; William Beckford (novelist)
The most influential Gothic writer from this period was the American Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote numerous short stories and poems reinterpreting Gothic tropes. His story " The Fall of the House of Usher " (1839) revisits classic Gothic tropes of aristocratic decay, death, and insanity . [ 59 ]
Ann Radcliffe (née Ward; 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English novelist, a pioneer of Gothic fiction, and a minor poet.Her technique of explaining apparently supernatural elements in her novels has been credited with gaining respectability for Gothic fiction in the 1790s. [1]
Gothic fiction (sometimes referred to as Gothic horror or Gothic romanticism) is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror fiction and romanticism Contents: Top
Shirley Jackson is one of the iconic writers of horror of the 20th century, and her final novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, is a gothic masterpiece. The story follows 18-year-old Merricat ...
Early American Gothic writers were particularly concerned with frontier wilderness anxiety and the lasting effects of a Puritanical society. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving is perhaps the most famous example of American Colonial-era Gothic fiction.
McCarthy's works are closely tied to the South, but the Southern Gothic writer was actually born in Providence. McCarthy's family moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, when he was a child, and his father ...
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author who is best known for writing the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the West End's Lyceum Theatre, which Irving owned.