Concept

Gothic fiction

Overview

cross-media genre or theme of fiction that combines horror and sometimes romance with an aesthetic of fear, death and haunting

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

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Place in the tradition

Part of Romanticism.

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