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	Gothic fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is the predecessor of modern horror fiction and is the source of the connection between "gothic" and the dark and horrific.
		The opprobrious term "gothick" was embraced by the 18th century proponents of the gothic revival, a forerunner of the Romantic genres.
		Gothic revival architecture, which became popular in the nineteenth century, was a reaction to the classical architecture that was a hallmark of the Age of Reason.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gothic_horror (2839 words)

	Gothic Literature
		The term "Gothic" was coined by Italian Renaissance writers who attributed (blamed, is more like it) what they considered to be the non-classical ugliness of the art and architecture of the mid-12th to 15th centuries to the northern tribes of Germanic barbarians known as the Goths.
		By the end of the 18th Century the meaning of the word "Gothic" sort of switched from "medieval" to "macabre", all with a little help from a man with a big fl lump of coal between his ears named Horace Walpole (1717-1797).
		It also introduced the major Gothic themes: the idea of inherited evil (the son paying for the sins of the father), characters whose physical appearance corresponds with their spiritual state, and, most important of all, the identity of the castle or house with its owner.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Chateau/8780/GothicLitera.html (1217 words)

	Terror and Horror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Although Radcliffe uses examples from Shakespeare, rather than Gothic novels, to articulate her position, later critics have consistently adopted the terms "terror" and "horror" to distinguish between the two major strains of the Gothic represented by Radcliffe and Lewis respectively.
		Horror resorts to a cruder presentation of the macabre: by an exact portrayal of the physically horrible and revolting, against a far more terrible background of spiritual gloom and despair.
		Horror appeals to sheer dread and repulsion, by brooding upon the gloomy and the sinister, and lacerates the nerves by establishing actual cutaneous contact with the supernatural...
	www.engl.virginia.edu /~enec981/Group/chris.terror.html (2969 words)

	Gothic Cinema
		For the place where the spirit of the Gothic has been the strongest and most conspicuous in the 20th Century has been in the much maligned and openly despised demimonde art form that is reffered to in the vernacular as the "horror movie".
		At the heart of every Gothic tale, be it on the page or on the screen, is an eruption of supernatural chaos and disorder into the world.
		It's only fitting that the gloomy spirit of the Gothic would make its first major emergence into this new medium, one of light and shadows, in its ancestral homeland of dear old Deutschland (let's not forget that the word "Gothic" comes from the name of the Germanic tribes known as the Goths, 'kay?).
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Chateau/8780/GothicCinema.html (1633 words)

	Gothic in Film
		Though the "Gothic" in its title was meant to signify "medieval," "rude" and "barbarous" the work did have a few defining thematic and stylistic factors that were to be used among early Gothic novels.
		The Gothic subculture has always had a strong interest in vampires to the point where one of the few films to emerge from the subculture (as opposed to merely accepted by it) was the vampire movie The Hunger (Tony Scott, 1983), featuring David Bowie and a performance by Bauhaus.
		It is a hybrid of horror, fantasy and distopian future sci-fi, and finally returns to the stylistic roots of German expressionism as represented in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
	www.ithaca.edu /keg/seminar/gothfilm.htm (2682 words)

	Horror Factor - Horror Writing Tips for Writing Horror Fiction
		Just as these students were unanimous in what they wanted most from a horror story (fast-paced suspense), they were equally adamant about what ruins their fun: anything that smacks of a "literary" treatment and slows down the pace.
		The students were laying down an important caveat for aspiring horror writers: In a genre which attempts to entertain with suspense and dark fantasy, there is a keen demand for raw imaginative power and an unorthodox daring-do of mind that can take writer and reader where others fear to tread.
		Contemporary horror fiction taps an excitement for reading in them that is almost always absent from a classroom dominated by the classics and the modern darlings of English Departments.
	horror.fictionfactor.com /articles/readersdontwant.html (1677 words)

	Horror Films
		Horror films are often combined with science fiction when the menace or monster is related to a corruption of technology, or when Earth is threatened by aliens.
		Horror films, when done well and with less reliance on horrifying special effects, can be extremely potent film forms, tapping into our dream states and the horror of the irrational and unknown, and the horror within man himself.
		The earliest horror pictures, now-forgotten "vamp" pictures (films featuring devilish captivating ladies) in one-reel or full length features, were produced in the US from 1909 to the early 1920s, making the horror genre one of the oldest and most basic.
	www.filmsite.org /horrorfilms.html (3087 words)

	A Brief Historical Overview
		Most critics, literary historians, and readers see Gothic fiction as continuing to the present time; though it has undergone great changes, the themes and conventions of the earliest Gothic novels are alive and well, appearing in novels, movies, TV dramas and cartoons, and computer games.
		Because the Gothic stream became so broad and took so many branches and turnings, I will cover only a few highlights and discuss, during the course of the semester, the historical significance of the authors we will be reading.
		Most of the "pure" Gothics tend to have a handsome, magnetic suitor or husband who may or may not be a lunatic and/or murderer...it remained for U.S. women to discover they were frightened of their husbands.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /english/melani/gothic/history.html (1430 words)

	Touched by the Hand of Goth: Classics of Gothic Horror Cinema
		The genre of Gothic horror film has existed almost as long as the cinema itself, and it has always fascinated people.
		The following is a brief and superficial overview on the history of Gothic horror film and some classics of the genre.
		Although the more usual Gothic environment was replaced by disturbingly surreal sets, this incredibly inventive story of dream, madness, love and evil is thematically more truly Gothic than any of your average graveyards-castles-and-living-dead spook flicks.
	www.student.oulu.fi /~sairwas/frameX/horror (1530 words)

	The Gothic of Horror Literature - Horror Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		It is interesting to note that gothic literature began to divide into numerous formations shortly after the genre came into official existence.
		Then again, the themes of Shelly’s novel certainly tug at the “horror” strings: isolation, life after death, chaotic ambition and the consequences of playing god can equally be looked upon as an in-depth look into the horrors of a dark humanity.
		It is likely the horror literature movement has branched off and evolved from its more gothic cousin, yet the elements of the gothic can still be found in many works of the horror genre: abused heroines, foreboding mansions, and incestuous uncles are themes still prominent in the popular horror novels of today.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art27161.asp (464 words)

	PlanetPapers - Gothic Horror Cinema
		The following is a brief and superficial overview on Gothic horror film and some classics of the genre.
		Although the more usual Gothic environment was replaced by disturbingly dreamlike sets, this incredibly inventive story of dream, madness, love and evil is thematically more truly Gothic than any of your average graveyards-castles-and-living-dead spook flicks.
		The style was born in the early sixties with Roger Vadim's Et mourir de plaisir,(1960) “Blood and Roses” and soon such European directors as the French Jean Rollin were directing numerous bizarre fairytales with blood, fangs and naked women.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/3975.php (1455 words)

	hollywood horror by mark a. vieira
		Hollywood Horror: From Gothic to Cosmic is the first book to trace the evolution of this genre in narrative form, using the voices of directors, writers, special-effects artists, and actors who collaborated on these singular works of art.
		Horror is the most enduring of all film genres, yet there has never been a definitive pictorial history of the American horror film.
		He learned the horror of looking at the disfigurement of his body—not only the loss of his left leg but also a permanently bent and mangled right leg.
	www.thestarlightstudio.com /hhpage.htm (1160 words)

	Amazon.fr : Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond: Livres en anglais: Clive Bloom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In this new title, Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond, he's picked the greatest hits of horror fiction commentary--including Poe's essay on how he wrote "The Raven," as well as observations from today's best literary critics.
		Also included is a five-page chronology of significant horror and ghost tales from 1840 to 1996--which is sketchy, especially after 1980, but provides useful watershed dates.
		The only downer is Bloom's introduction: he argues that "gothic" and "horror" are not necessarily the same thing, and tries to explains why, but his reasoning (or perhaps his writing) is rather muddled.
	www.amazon.fr /Gothic-Horror-Readers-Guide-Beyond/dp/0312212380 (522 words)

	Irish Journal Of Gothic and Horror Studies Home
		As any aficionado of the Gothic knows, any attempt to unduly restrain energy or deny difference often borders on tyranny and is inevitably doomed to failure.
		The character of the Irish has itself been viewed and represented in less than positive terms; impassioned to the point of violence, maudlin to the point of utter despair, and apparently friendly while in truth harboring deep hostility and resentment.
		We now learn that Podge and Rodge are twins, in their 50s, both long term unemployed, they perform illegal bicycle repairs and moonlight as gut scrapers in the local meat factory.
	irishgothichorrorjournal.homestead.com (921 words)

	notcoming.com \| The Curse of the Crying Woman
		The Curse of the Crying Woman is resolutely Gothic, full of the genre’s characteristic tropes: an inherited curse, pervasive madness, a decaying old castle, a blurring of the line between life and death, mirroring and doubling, a persecuted ingénue, and an overpowering sense of impending doom.
		The title character — a variation on a Mexican folk tale of a woman, grieving her dead children, whose appearance is a harbinger of death — summons her niece to initiate her into her destiny as the next in a long line of murderous witches, and to assist in the resurrection of the original Llorona.
		Gothic horror is an old, hardy genre with its roots in Eighteenth-century literature, but its popularity is cyclical.
	www.notcoming.com /reviews.php?id=667 (624 words)

	Glossary of Literary Gothic Terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		We offer seven descriptors that frequently appear in works called gothic: 1) the appearance of the supernatural, 2) the psychology of horror and/or terror, 3) the poetics of the sublime, 4) a sense ofmystery and dread 5) the appealing hero/villain, 6) the distressed heroine, and 7) strong moral closure (usually at least).
		The presence of the Inquisition in Gothic literature functions as a synechdoche of its anti-Catholicismand, with its sense of relentless persecution, figures frequently in depictions of the pursued protagonist.
		This convention in Gothic Literature is often used to obscure objects (see Burke's notion of the sublime) by reducing visibility or to prelude the insertion of a terrifying person or thing.
	www.georgiasouthern.edu /~dougt/goth.html (10015 words)

	Fangs Ent./Gothic Stuff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		This was to be noticed by the world in 1922, when the German expressionist F.W. Murnau made the first ever film adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula.
		Throughout the film, Boris Karloff manages to squeeze a considerable amount of dumb emotion through the monster's deformed face-particularly in the (partly cut-out) scene where he has thrown the young girl to a lake, thinking that she will float like the other flowers.
		Usually starring Christopher Lee as the monster and Peter Cushing as the pure-hearted hero, some of these films were based on traditional Gothic themes and some of them were set in traditional Gothic surroundings.
	members.aol.com /fangs91/gothic.html (1514 words)

	Gothic Novel & Horror Fiction
		Slasher films used to be a great way to spend "date night." However, we've become so jaded about horror films (and the girl who always falls during the chase scene) that we are amused by them instead of genuinely terrified and awe-struck.
		All of these literary texts originate from the Gothic novel tradition, where psychological disintegration is quelled by sweeping landscapes.
		The TA for this course will be responsible for commenting on some writing assignments, especially the nightmare assignment in which students create a word version of their nightmarish images.
	www.sjsu.edu /faculty/harris/GothicNovel/CrsDescript.htm (288 words)

	Best of Gothic Horror
		The Best of Gothic Horror is a compilation that includes some of the most famous gothic-horror writing in history.
		The tale of the monster’s distress, and the mayhem that results from it, is the crux of this dark and engrossing story.
		Written when she was barely twenty years old, Shelly’s shocking novel inspires both fear and sorrow which continues to engage and move us over a century later.
	www.audiobooksonline.com /shopsite/1886089663.html (393 words)

	The Literary Gothic - the premier webguide to Gothic & horror lit written prior to 1950 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Literary Gothic - the premier webguide to Gothic and horror lit written prior to 1950
		Welcome to The Literary Gothic, the web's premier guide to Gothic fiction and all Gothic-tradition literature written prior to 1950, featuring links to and information about dozens of gothic-tradition writers, as well as etexts created and/or hosted only at this site.
		If you're seeing this page, you may have disabled javascript or the "refresh" meta tag in your browser, or may not have the Flash plugin, or are probably using Microsoft's benighted Internet Explorer, but you probably already knew all that....
	www.litgothic.com (97 words)

	Site Builder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In the eighteenth century a new fashion for tales of horror and mystery began.
		They were called Gothic Novels, because of their frequent setting in the medieval period and their most famous author was Horace Walpole(1717-97), whose "Castle of Otranto" was enormously popular.
		In this fashion too, was Frankenstein by Mary Shelley(1797-1851), which is regarded as the first science fiction story to be written.
	www.gothicgifts.co.uk (146 words)

	GBS :: Gothic Beach Studio :: The Vault
		For those of you who may be too young to know the whole "Elvira" story, we'll keep you, uh, abreast.
		She singlehandedly revived the tv "horror host" genre (having wained since the '50's) by performing as MC to cult, crappy, public domain films.
		Filmed entirely on location over a two month period in Transylvania and at Mediapro Studios in Romania, the film is a parody of the classic Vincent Price/ Edgar Allen Poe films of the early sixties.
	www.gothicbeachstudio.com /vault/elvira.shtml (322 words)

	Gothic Nite
		The haven of the night has opened its doors to the fl hearts of those that walk within the rays of the moon.
		Insanely good buttons hand-crafted by incurable criminal lunatics who are repaying their debts to Society by fashioning navigation aids for Horror Websites.
		If you have a website with content relating to halloween, horror, paranormal, ghostly, dark, creatures of the dark, fantasy, halloween history and customs, recipes, safety tips, halloween games, or the macabre, then join Lobotomy today, and get even more traffic to your sites.
	n.webring.com /hub?ring=gothic_nite (1247 words)

	Dark, Vampire, Gothic Webrings
		Vampire, Gothic, Halloween and other such dark sites are welcome to join the ring.
		This site is dedicated to all those who see and appreciate the Darker side of life and who have rendered their interpretations on a website for the world to see.
		Webpages that are gothic, horror, wierd, morbid, strange, or dead...
	www.horrorseek.com /horror/adoptademon/Webrings/ringsdark.html (771 words)

	Gothic and Horror Fiction Quiz
		In case of a tie the winner will be drawn from a hat and their name will be published, along with the answers, in the next issue of TBR.
		A character in a famous novella dies with the words "The Horror, the Horror." Name the character and the novella.
		Name the first novel (later adapted as a Hammer Studio film) in which a werewolf is portrayed as a victim, his transformation being the result of a curse.
	www.barcelonareview.com /21/e_goth_quiz.htm (659 words)

	FMGothicWebmaster.com :: Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		This is a place where general discussion and friendly chat is welcome along with tutorials on gothic and dark traffic, how to start a gothic or horror website or business, link exchanges, traffic trades, banner exchanges, top lists, website design, flash design, paysites and whatever devious plans and scriptures are discovered.
		Gothic, Vampires, Horror, Zombies, Spooky, Dark, Paranormal, Ghouls, Demons, Devils, Bumps in the Night, Chainsaw wielding Madmen, Boogiemen, Werewolves, Witches, Ghosts and Politicians are all welcome here.
		Section dedicated for the sites and shows that stream gothic, industrial, ethereal and anything that does not have the word 'yo' or 'nigger' in it.
	www.fmgothicblog.com (428 words)

	Gothic Horror: Vampire Wars Category
		I just received my first batch of Gothic Horror Figures from Old Glory.
		A brief review of Gothic Horror and some thoughts from an inexperienced gamer
		West Wind Productions official makers of the Gothic Horror: Vampire Wars miniatures and rules.
	www.voidgamers.com /channel/fantasy/gothic-horror (277 words)

	HORRORFIND The Horror and Halloween Search Engine
		HorrorFind is the first search engine dedicated to all horror, all the time.
		It is the ultimate source for horror and Halloween, with listings of sites about Halloween, Halloween products, Halloween props, horror, horror movies, werewolves, vampires, witches, ghosts, demons, monsters, haunted places, haunted parks, haunted attractions, ghost walks, fl magic, magic in general, evil spells, zombies and all sorts of other horror-related stuff..
		Let us know what we can do to make HorrorFind the best horror search in the world and you can be sure we'll consider it - email the horrormaster@HorrorFind.com with your suggestions.
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