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Jun 9, 2018 · American gothic. Publication date. 1997. Topics. Short stories -- Horror -- Fiction. Publisher. New York : Barnes and Noble Books. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled; inlibrary.
Mar 1, 2020 · American gothic tales. Publication date. 1996. Topics. Horror tales, American, Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States. Publisher. New York : Plume. Collection. marygrovecollege; internetarchivebooks; americana; printdisabled; inlibrary.
Oct 12, 2010 · American gothic. by. Bloch, Robert, 1917-1994. Publication date. 1974. Topics. Detective and mystery stories, Gothic novels, Romantic thrillers. Publisher. New York, Simon and Schuster.
- American Gothic Tales. by Various. Sometimes, the shotgun approach can be best when exploring a new genre. Award winning author Joyce Carol Oates certainly knows her way around American Gothic literature, having written some of its finest modern incarnations.
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle. by Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson’s indisputable classic The Haunting of Hill House usually takes up a lot of bandwidth when we talk about her best novels, but We Have Always Lived in the Castle, her final work, hews more closely to the precepts of the American Gothic genre.
- The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings. by Edgar Allan Poe. Although he tinkered with several different genres during his short and troubled life, Edgar Allan Poe is synonymous with gothic horror.
- Wieland. by Charles Brockden Brown. Charles Brockden Brown may not be a household name, but his novel Wieland, or, the Transformation is considered the first American Gothic.
American gothic fiction is a subgenre of gothic fiction. Elements specific to American Gothic include: rationality versus the irrational, puritanism, guilt, the uncanny (das unheimliche), ab-humans, ghosts, and monsters. Analysis of major themes.
Book: The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic; Online publication: 20 November 2017; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316337998.001
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American Gothic is a 1974 psychological horror novel by American writer Robert Bloch, a fictionalized portrayal of real life serial killer H. H. Holmes, who is renamed "G. Gordon Gregg" for the story.
