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  1. 2 days ago · The Holy Grail of book collecting, Tamerlane is one of those books that—like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in the original boards, which sold at Christie’s in 2021 for $1.17 million, or Shakespeare’s first folio, priced at $7.5 million and sold last year by the London-based rare book firm Peter Harrington on its 400th anniversary—causes a stir among rare book enthusiasts whether or not ...

  2. 4 days ago · Howard Phillips Lovecraft ( US: / ˈlʌvkræft /, UK: / ˈlʌvkrɑːft /; August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos. [a] Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life in New England.

  3. 2 days ago · His home destroyed, his wife and children butchered, his world shattered by civil war - he can find no reason to protect his soul from the intoxicating evil that pursues him.

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  4. 3 days ago · Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting. The name refers to Gothic architecture of the European Middle Ages, which was characteristic of the settings of early Gothic novels.

  5. 4 days ago · ABSTRACT. This article explores how Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger (2022) and Stella Maris (2022) cement a reliance on Gothic literary minimalism. Although minimalism and the Gothic are traditionally positioned as aesthetic opposites, with the former orientated toward stylistic sparsity and the latter an art of excess, I examine how both converge in these interconnected novels to further an ...

  6. 1 day ago · Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Read the excerpt from a short story. The apartment house had a communal attic rarely visited by its tenants. The labeled boxes and cast-off furniture offered little intrigue, so few explored its depths.

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  8. 3 days ago · Prior to enrolling for University College, Oxford, in October 1810, Shelley completed Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire (written with his sister Elizabeth), the verse melodrama The Wandering Jew and the gothic novel St. Irvine; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance (published 1811).

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