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The 113 pages that link to Gothic fiction, each with the reason it gives.

• Horror fictionRelated: Its decaying houses and hidden crimes make dread feel embedded in a place.

• French RomanticismRelated: Gothic atmosphere supplied Romantic writers with forms for exploring fear, history, and imagination.

• Adventure fictionRelated: Gothic fiction supplied adventure with ominous settings and perilous secrets.

• Psychological horrorRelated: Gothic fiction supplies settings and conventions that psychological horror can use to externalize inner distress.

• FantasyRelated: Gothic fiction helped shape fantasy’s treatment of haunted places and supernatural encounters.

• Fantasy literatureRelated: Gothic writing helped shape fantasy’s darker supernatural and atmospheric modes.

• Nathaniel HawthorneRelated: Its atmosphere of hidden histories and moral unease shapes several of Hawthorne’s romances.

• Margaret AtwoodRelated: Atwood adapts Gothic conventions in novels such as Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin.

• Washington IrvingRelated: The Headless Horseman and the haunted atmosphere of Sleepy Hollow draw on Gothic conventions.

• Charlotte BrontëRelated: Jane Eyre adapts Gothic conventions to express fear, desire, and unequal power.

• Supernatural fictionRelated: Gothic fiction established influential settings and techniques for supernatural terror.

• Dark fantasyRelated: Its decaying places and buried secrets often provide dark fantasy's atmosphere.

• E. T. A. HoffmannRelated: Its atmosphere and motifs overlap with Hoffmann’s darker fantastic stories.

• Regency eraRelated: Gothic fiction complicates the Regency’s polished image of manners and fashion.

• Byronic heroRelated: Gothic conventions often supply the darkness and secrecy surrounding the hero.

• English novelRelated: Gothic conventions repeatedly unsettle the realism associated with the English novel.

• Speculative fictionRelated: Gothic conventions helped shape speculative writing about fear and the unknown.

• The Tell-Tale HeartRelated: Poe adapted Gothic conventions into a short, concentrated psychological narrative.

• Wilkie CollinsRelated: Collins adapts Gothic devices to modern households, institutions, and legal disputes.

• Ambrose BierceRelated: Several Bierce stories combine psychological terror with uncanny or seemingly supernatural events.

• American RomanticismRelated: American Romantics used Gothic devices to probe guilt, fear, and hidden violence.

• Romance (genre)Related: Gothic fiction inherited romance’s taste for marvels and remote, extraordinary settings.

• Emily BrontëRelated: The novel’s haunted atmosphere and extreme passions connect it to Gothic writing.

• François-René de ChateaubriandRelated: The mood and landscape of his fiction helped transmit Gothic conventions into French Romantic writing.

• Marquis de SadeRelated: Gothic settings and sensational cruelty overlap with the atmosphere of several works attributed to him.

• The NightmareRelated: The painting’s theatrical horror parallels the genre’s growing fascination with terror and the uncanny.

• The Rocky Horror Picture ShowRelated: The castle and its secrets draw on Gothic conventions while turning them into comedy.

• Anne BrontëRelated: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall uses Gothic suspense to frame domestic abuse and escape.

• Goth subcultureRelated: Goth aesthetics draw on imagery and moods long associated with Gothic literature.

• Alice MunroRelated: Munro sometimes gives familiar rural settings a quiet atmosphere of threat and unease.

• Annabel LeeRelated: The speaker’s nightly vigil beside Annabel Lee’s tomb gives the love story a Gothic afterlife.

• Edward Bulwer-LyttonRelated: Gothic conventions inform the menace and spectacle in several of his novels.

• John BanvilleRelated: Gothic elements give several novels a form for guilt and unresolved loss.

• Joyce Carol OatesRelated: Gothic menace and psychological extremity recur throughout Oates’s fiction.

• Karen BlixenRelated: Blixen adapts Gothic conventions through elaborate tales of identity, fate, and social power.

• Mylène FarmerRelated: Gothic imagery recurs in her songs and videos, especially in their treatment of desire and death.

• The HousemaidRelated: The affluent home turns into an enclosed setting where hidden dangers accumulate.

• Thomas De QuinceyRelated: His opium visions and accounts of terror fed later Gothic treatments of psychological experience.

• Aloysius BertrandRelated: His medieval scenes and uncanny episodes helped renew Gothic effects within French poetry.

• Daphne du MaurierRelated: Her novels adapt Gothic atmosphere to modern domestic and psychological conflicts.

• John Dickson CarrRelated: Carr often gives rational crime puzzles a Gothic atmosphere of dread and strangeness.

• Romantic literatureRelated: Its dark landscapes and heightened feeling overlap with Romantic literary concerns.

• Eleanor Alice BurfordRelated: Its atmosphere and suspense are central to many novels published as Victoria Holt.

• Graveyard poetsRelated: The graveyard poets’ dark settings and fascination with death anticipated imagery later central to Gothic writing.

• Gustavo Adolfo BécquerRelated: Its supernatural atmosphere offers a useful frame for Leyendas.

• History of fantasyRelated: Gothic fiction made supernatural threats and haunted settings central to modern imaginative prose.

• Lygia Fagundes TellesRelated: Gothic elements give domestic spaces and buried memories an atmosphere of menace.

• Margaret MahyRelated: Mahy adapts Gothic unease in novels such as The Haunting.

• Maria GripeRelated: Some later novels use eerie houses and secrets without abandoning psychological realism.

• R. L. StineRelated: Gothic devices supply haunted places and family secrets across Stine’s stories.