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'''Gothic Horror''' is one of the oldest of the [[Horror]] genres. [[Darker and Edgier|Darker, edgier]] and on the [[Romanticism]] end of [[Romanticism Versus Enlightenment]], it tends to play on both the thrill and the fear of the unknown, and places a great importance on atmosphere. It's usually heavily [[Rule of Symbolism|symbolic]], sometimes even dreamlike. In addition to being important to the horror genre, the first [[Sci Fi]], [[Fantasy]], [[Romance]], [[Mystery]], and [[Adventure]] authors drew inspiration from Gothic horror, so it's sometimes considered the parent of all modern genre fiction.
Gothic fiction is usually used as a synonym or is the name given to Gothic horror stories that are saturated with the above mentioned scifi, fantasy, romance, mystery, or adventure elements.
The name "Gothic" comes from a kind of architecture from [[The Middle Ages]] (christened as such by those who considered it barbaric in comparison to classical architecture, the name coming from the barbarian tribe of the Goths). There were a lot of Gothic ruins lying around Britain, and people in the 18th and 19th centuries developed an interest in them because (a) ruins are always kind of mysterious and melancholy and creepy and (b) they evoked the time period they were built in, which was thought of as a [[The Dung Ages|barbaric]] time where people believed in (and did) all kinds of weird stuff. For this reason, most early Gothic horror novels were set in that era. They were usually also set in Catholic countries, because the Brits who wrote them considered Catholicism [[Religion of Evil|sinister]] ([[Evil Is Cool|yet also kinda cool]]).
The renewed interest in Gothic stuff also led to the Gothic Revival movement in architecture, but for the purposes of this article we're not so interested in that.
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[[Universal Horror|Universal]] and [[Hammer Horror|Hammer Films]] are responsible for successfully adapting this genre onto the big screen. For a modern take on the genre see [[Gaslamp Fantasy]] and [[Supernatural Fiction]].
For a list of tropes used in the Gothic horror genre see [[Index of Gothic Horror Tropes]].
== Authors who wrote partially or entirely in the Gothic fiction genre include
=== Eighteenth Century ===
* Horace Walpole -- [[Trope Maker]] and gave us [[Haunted Castle]].
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* William
* Matthew Gregory
* Eleanor Sleath
* Eliza Parsons
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* Carl Friedrich Kahlert ''alias'' Ludwig Flammenberg
* Carl Grosse ''alias'' Marquis de Grosse
* Regina Maria Roche
=== Pre-Victorian Nineteenth Century ===
* Charles Robert Maturin -- ''Melmoth the Wanderer''.
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* John William
=== Victorian ===
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* George W.M. Reynolds
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* Edward Bulwer-
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* Louisa May
* Sheridan Le
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* George Du
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* Henry James -- ''[[
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=== Post Victorian ===
* Algernon Blackwood
* Hugh Walpole
* Marjorie Bowen
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* Daphne du
== Authors influenced by Gothic Fiction
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* [[Anne Rice]]
* [[Barbara Gowdy]]
* [[Flannery O
* [[H.P. Lovecraft
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* [[Margaret Atwood]]
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* [[Poppy Z. Brite]]
* [[Robert Bloch]]
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* [[William Faulkner]]
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