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

• 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.

• Edward ScissorhandsNarrower topic: Edward’s shadowy mansion and outsider status draw on Gothic conventions.

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

• The ShiningNarrower topic: The isolated hotel and its violent past adapt Gothic conventions to modern cinema.

• Ann RadcliffeNarrower topic: Radcliffe helped establish its characteristic combination of terror, landscape, and suspense.

• Christopher LeeNarrower topic: Lee’s horror roles carried Gothic conventions from literature into popular cinema.

• 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.

• Lambs of GodNarrower topic: The remote island, decaying convent, and buried secrets draw on Gothic conventions.

• 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.

• The UndertakerNarrower topic: The character’s early imagery drew on familiar Gothic conventions of graves, darkness, and death.

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

• BluebeardNarrower topic: The castle, forbidden chamber, and hidden corpses anticipate recurring Gothic settings and anxieties.

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

• Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeNarrower topic: The hidden laboratory, night streets, and monstrous transformation draw on Gothic conventions.

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

• Charles AddamsNarrower topic: Its imagery and atmosphere resonate with the macabre world of Addams’s cartoons.

• Count DraculaNarrower topic: Its conventions shape Dracula’s castle, secrecy, and invasion of domestic life.

• Dark RomanticismNarrower topic: Its haunted settings and threatening mysteries supplied Dark Romanticism with much of its atmosphere.

• 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.

• The Legend of Sleepy HollowNarrower topic: Irving adapts Gothic atmosphere while keeping the Horseman’s reality uncertain.

• 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.

• Anne RiceNarrower topic: Rice adapts gothic atmosphere to stories driven by a vampire’s inner life.

• Carolyn JonesNarrower topic: The series recast Gothic imagery as domestic comedy, with Jones at its center.

• Charles Brockden BrownNarrower topic: Brown adapted Gothic conventions to American landscapes, politics, and religious conflicts.

• 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.

• Sheridan Le FanuNarrower topic: Its atmosphere and conventions shape Le Fanu’s novels and stories.

• The Vampire ChroniclesNarrower topic: Rice adapts gothic atmosphere to a modern setting and a vampire’s intimate voice.

• Carlos Ruiz ZafónNarrower topic: Its shadowed settings and buried histories shape the mood of Zafón’s novels.

• Comte de LautréamontCompared with: Ducasse uses Gothic horror but often replaces its suspense with surreal transformations and satire.

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

• Ero guroCompared with: Gothic fiction shares taboo and bodily unease, but ero guro has a distinct Japanese cultural history.

• Gaston LerouxNarrower topic: The Phantom’s lair and obsessive secrecy bring Gothic conventions into modern Paris.

• 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.

• Horror and terrorNarrower topic: The horror–terror distinction emerged as a way to describe contrasting effects within this mode.