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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)
Dark fantasy settings are often eerie or gothic, with haunted forests, ancient ruins, decrepit castles, and misty graveyards. [2] Stories that often include evil creatures, gore, dark magic, and other types of unsettling imagery or characteristics, often set in a twisted reality, themes like decay, despair, and the inevitability of suffering.
A magic school is an institution for learning magic, appearing in works of fantasy depicting worlds in which magic exists and in which there is an organized society of magicians or wizards who pass on their knowledge systematically. It may also be a school that is magically protected or a Faculty of Magic in a university which also teaches ...
Harry Potter is a powerful young wizard, one of the children of The Dark Is Rising series is an immature Old One with magical abilities, and in the His Dark Materials series the children have magical items and animal allies. The plot frequently incorporates a bildungsroman.
[22]: 3–4 Western confusion regarding magical realism is due to the "conception of the real" created in a magical realist text: rather than explain reality using natural or physical laws, as in typical Western texts, magical realist texts create a reality "in which the relation between incidents, characters, and setting could not be based ...
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 .
Magic Kingdom of Landover: Terry Brooks: Setting for six novels and two short stories: Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold! 1986: N Lankhmar: Fritz Leiber: A city on the primitive world of Nehwon, home of the rogues Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Two Sought Adventure: 1939: N G C Malazan World: Steven Erikson: Setting of the Malazan Books of the Fallen ...
American gothic fiction is a subgenre of gothic fiction. Elements specific to American Gothic include: rationality versus the irrational , puritanism , guilt , the uncanny ( das unheimliche ), ab-humans , ghosts , and monsters .