Gothic
literature, also known as gothic fantasy or gothic horror, is an outgrowth of dark Romanticism
that developed in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The first use of the term in a
literary context was in 1764 in the title of Howard Walpole's novel The Castle of
Otranto: A Gothic Story. Other examples of nineteenth-century literature that were
considered Gothic included Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, The
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, and
Dracula by Bram Stoker.
One of the first American
writers to employ Gothic elements was Washington Irving in his...
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