Gothic Auntie
Literature, folklore, and history
Category: Gothic Romance
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Romance and horror have been tied together since Horace Walpole wrote The Castle of Otranto and launched the gothic genre, permanently altering the brain chemistry of an entire era in the process. If you’re lucky enough to find yourself in a relationship with a bookish horror fan this year then a gothic novel (or two, or three)…
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Gothic literature has a timeless appeal. As long as people are horrible to each other in grand, sweeping ways, as long as there are unbalanced power dynamics and people willing to exploit them, as long as people decide to psychologically torture each other instead of going to therapy, gothic literature will be there — offering catharsis, or…
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I can feel the lit snobs bristling from here, but it’s true; Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and a lot of gothic classics all fit the brief for dark romance. What’s more, the moral panic that dark romance has inspired is the exact same one that played out over gothic literature in the 18th and 19th centuries. The…
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