![]() The Castle of Otranto, written in 1764 by Horace Walpole, ‘is generally regarded as the first Gothic novel’. JANE AUSTEN's Northanger Abbey (1803/1818) ridicules gothic literature by contrasting it with real life the heroine imagines herself living in a gothic setting.The presentation of the Gothic has spanned the centuries, gripping each and every reader with its dastardly plot and unsuspecting victims.CHARLOTTE BRONTË's Jane Eyre (1847) and EMILY BRONTË's Wuthering Heights (1847) are gothic romances.ROALD DAHL's Kiss Kiss (1959) uses elements of the macabre.STEPHEN KING's Carrie (1974) and Insomnia (1994) are examples of modern horror fiction. ![]()
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