Here, the Gothic manifests through the motif of doubling: Everyone has aDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde within them, to a degree. Though he looks perpetually young and beautiful, a portrait of Dorianin his attic becomes pock-marked with all of hismany sins over the years. [6] Gothic fiction often moves between "high culture" and "low" or "popular culture".[3]. Destination: unknown. Particularly popular were The Romance of the Forest (1791) and The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794). [40] In Tanith Lee's Don't Bite the Sun, there is no want of any kind only unabashed consumption and hedonism, leading the protagonist to begin looking for a deeper meaning to existence. 31, No. Novels such as The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), in which the character's fates are decided by superstition and prophecy, or the poem, Marmion (1808), in which a Nun is walled alive inside a convent, illustrate Scott's influence and use of Gothic themes. [8], From the castles, dungeons, forests and hidden passages of the Gothic novel genre emerged female Gothic. The following year, Foster would write both a novelization and prequel to Alien: Covenant (2017). Many featured covers showing a terror-stricken woman in diaphanous attire in front of a gloomy castle, often with a single lit window. The vampire looks back on his adventures in this decadent, racy novel by the legendary Anne Rice. He also wrote an opera based on the Friedrich de la Motte Fouqu's Gothic story Undine (1816), for which de la Motte Fouqu himself wrote the libretto. (1986). [74] The term "Gothic" is sometimes also used to describe the ballads of Russian authors such as Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky, particularly "Ludmila" (1808) and "Svetlana" (1813), both translations based on Gottfreid August Burger's Gothic German ballad, "Lenore". [14], John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) was also very influential amongst Gothic writers, who were especially drawn to the tragic anti-hero character Satan, who became a model for many charismatic Gothic villains and Byronic heroes. With the Gothic, it's about building tension. Now Billie, Wilks, and Bueller face a new nightmare, and it is nothing they could ever have imagined: a gift of madness from an alien world, unbalanced mind, and the experiences of a mysterious pilot named Lieutenant Ellen Ripley. It's so much a part of everyday life that young people inevitably consciously or not are questioning their futures and how the Earth will be. The first work to call itself Gothic was Horace Walpole's 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, later subtitled "A Gothic Story". [28][27] Some have commented on this trend, saying that "it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism". Fledgling reworks the vampirea classic character within Gothic literature.In the book, a 10-year-old with amnesia learns she's a 53-year-old vampire, and has to unearth mysteries buried As opposed to earlier Gothic books, vampires aren't the villainsthey're the morally ambiguousstars of the show. This pocket of humanity at the very edges of space is at the mercy of a general names Spears with an agenda all his own. [29][30][31][32][33] Cultural theorist and critic Mark Fisher identified the phrase as encompassing the theory of capitalist realism the perceived "widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it" and used the above quote as the title to the opening chapter of his book, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?. Its commonly anti-collectivist character is stressed, and the addition of other themesthe dangers of science and technology, of social inequality, of corporate dictatorship, of nuclear warare also traced. [13], Dustopia being the original spelling for Dystopia first appeared in Lewis Henry Younge's, Utopia: or Apollos Golden Days in 1747. Later prominent works were Dracula by Bram Stoker, Richard Marsh's The Beetle and Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Simon Estok, "Theorizing in a Space of Ambivalent Openness: Ecocriticism and Ecophobia". Technologies reflect and encourage the worst aspects of human nature. Seeking an escape from the city, the family inBurnt Offeringsmoves to a house in rural NewYork for a summer. His aim: to bring human and Alien together as one being. [45] Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale takes place in a future United States under a Christian-based theocratic regime. It's a natural follow-up toRebecca. The game takes a marked turn midway however, shifting from gothic horror to Lovecraftian horror. [16] Eloisa to Abelard (1717), which tells of star-crossed lovers, one doomed to a life of seclusion in a convent, and the other in a monastery, abounds in gloomy imagery, religious terror, and suppressed passion. There's something amiss inWe Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson's final novelbut we can't rely on our narrator, Merricat, to tell us what. The success of the novels led to the publication of further stories, including a novelization of the video game Alien: Isolation (2014). The following poems are also now considered to belong to the Gothic genre: Meshchevskiy's "Lila", Katenin's "Olga", Pushkin's "The Bridegroom", Pletnev's "The Gravedigger" and Lermontov's "Demon" (18291839). [citation needed][68], In the United States, two notable late 19th century writers in the Gothic tradition were Ambrose Bierce and Robert W. Chambers. [21][22] Though dystopia became the more popular term, cacotopia finds occasional use; Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, said it was a better fit for Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four because "it sounds worse than dystopia". Hell then becomes an anti-Sartrian lack of other people. A dying man becomes involved in a plot to steal royal jelly from an alien hive, believing it to be a cure for his cancer. Her choices will cut both (as well as the film Blade Runner, influenced by and based upon Dick's novel). Thirteen years later Wilks is in prison, and Billie lives in a mental institution, the nightmare memories of the massacre at Rim seared into her mind. Think of Gothic literature as a mood. Nor do they know that they head toward a remote colony and military outpost. It was not merely in literature that a medieval revival made itself felt, and this too contributed to a culture ready to accept a perceived medieval work in 1764. "Du Maurier's 'Rebecca,' A Worthy 'Eyre' Apparent". (Books) (Book review). [69] Some works of the Canadian writer Gilbert Parker also fall into the genre, including the stories in The Lane that Had No Turning (1900). "'Deep Into That Darkness Peering': An Essay on Gothic Nature". First published in 1764,The Castle of Otranto is widely considered the "first"Gothic novel, even though it predatedGothic literature's renaissance during the Victorian Era by a century. Little do they know that the cargo they carry with them is a legacy of death that they will ultimately have to face. The Bluford Series is a collection of twenty-two young adult novels that focus : The Confederate States of America, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction In society, List of dystopian music, TV programs, and games, "Dystopia - Examples and Definition of Dystopia as a Literary Device", "The Fine Line between Utopia and Dystopia | The Prolongation of Work", "Dystopias: Definition and Characteristics", "Postcard from Belgium: the birthplace of utopia", "Adjourned Debate. Professor Ernst Kleist rulesa paranoid tyrant whose speciality is making humans disappear. Daphne Du Maurier describesManderley with exquisite language. This mystical calling grants her powers that dramatically increase physical strength, endurance, agility, accelerated healing, intuition, and a limited degree of precognition, usually in the form of prophetic dreams. The weather is different. Then it is only expected that people will become more dissatisfied with the channel they are watching. In America, pulp magazines such as Weird Tales reprinted classic Gothic horror tales from the previous century, by such authors as Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and printed new stories by modern authors featuring both traditional and new horrors. Set in contemporary urban America, each novel addresses complex topics [93] An even smaller genre is Tasmanian Gothic, set exclusively on the island, with prominent examples including Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan and The Roving Party by Rohan Wilson.[94][95][96][97]. English Gothic writers often associated medieval buildings with what they saw as a dark and terrifying period, marked by harsh laws enforced by torture and with mysterious, fantastic, and superstitious rituals. As the fate of Earth hangs in the balance, Ripley and Billie must come to terms with what it means to be an alien . [50] Lois Lowry's "The Giver" shows a society where technology and the desire to create a utopia has led humanity to enforce climate control on the environment, as well as to eliminate many undomesticated species and to provide psychological and pharmaceutical repellent against human instincts. DH PressDark Horse Comics' novel publishing imprintpublished six original novels from 2005 to 2008. Unlike the other books on this list,Wylding Hallis structured as an oral history. Farrell's novels spawned a subgenre of "Grande Dame Guignol" in the cinema, represented by such films as the 1962 film based on Farrell's novel, which starred Bette Davis versus Joan Crawford; this subgenre of films was dubbed the "psycho-biddy" genre. [20], The setting of most early Gothic works was medieval, but this was a common theme long before Walpole. The Gothic novel shaped its form for woman readers to "turn to Gothic romances to find support for their own mixed feelings. [92] Novels in the Australian Gothic tradition include Kate Grenville's The Secret River and the works of Kim Scott. [27], In the 2010s, there was a surge of popular dystopian young adult literature and blockbuster films. Professional academic writers. Gothic fiction is characterized by an environment of fear, the threat of supernatural events, and the intrusion of the past upon the present. Bloom notes that this aesthetic must take the form of a theoretical or philosophical core, which is necessary to "sav[e] the best tales from becoming mere anecdote or incoherent sensationalism. This quote explains that people begin to not only blame the technology for the changes in lifestyle but also believe that technology is an omnipotence. However, Gothic literature was not the origin of this tradition; indeed, it was far older. And what follows is no less than guerrilla warfare on the aliens' planetand alien conquest on Earth! [73] Nearly ten years later, Nikolay Ivanovich Gnedich followed suit with his 1803 novel Don Corrado de Gerrera, set in Spain in the reign of Philip II. "Horror tends to be more about immediate fear. If the Gothic is, fundamentally, about being haunted, thenBelovedis Morrison's most Gothic work in whichSethe meets a grown-up incarnation of Beloved, the infant she killed to spare her from experiencing the horrors of slavery. The computer did it'" (Lanier). Beginning with Clara Reeve's The Old English Baron (1778), the 1780s saw more writers attempting his combination of supernatural plots with emotionally realistic characters. Guided by the works of authors such as Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley and Charlotte Bront, the female Gothic allowed women's societal and sexual desires to be introduced. 189234. Dracula, one of the ultimate vampire novels,has lent itself to countless adaptationsprecisely,Dr.NFhlainn says, because it's a Gothic novel. Alien: Isolation is a 2014 survival horror game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega for Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.Based on the Alien film series, the game is set 15 years after the events of the original 1979 film Alien, and follows engineer Amanda Ripley, daughter of Alien protagonist Ellen Ripley, as she investigates the disappearance [53] Poe is now considered the master of the American Gothic. [72] However, since the mid-1980s, Russian gothic fiction as a genre began to be discussed in books such as The Gothic-Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature, European Gothic: A Spirited Exchange 17601960, The Russian Gothic novel and its British antecedents and Goticheskiy roman v Rossii (The Gothic Novel in Russia). WithMexican Gothic,Silvia Moreno-Garcia is in conversation with many Gothic motifs, like atmospheric dread and haunted ancestral mansions. [54] ", "French and German Gothic: the beginnings", "The Gothic Novel and the Lingering Appeal of Romance", "The influence of "Gothic" literature on Sir Walter Scott", "Fact, Fiction or Fantasy, Scott's Historical Project and The Bride of Lammermoor", "Scott's Refinement of The Gothic In Certain of The Waverley Novels". [59] Another Gothic feature of Villette is an anti-Catholic bias. The Bluford Series is a collection of twenty-two young adult novels that focus on the lives of a group of high school students and their families. relevant to the lives of today's students: family, friendship, trust, [19] Clive Bloom theorizes that this void in the collective imagination was critical in the development of the cultural possibility for the rise of the Gothic tradition. A few "green" fictional dystopias do exist, such as in Michael Carson's short story "The Punishment of Luxury", and Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker. This obsession frequently led to extravagant architectural displays, such as Fonthill Abbey, and sometimes mock tournaments were held. Corporate republics are common in the cyberpunk genre, as in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Formal theory. America's first black astronaut. '"[56], 6. Rebeccais the quintessential Gothic romance, in that it uses a deep emotional connection to our narrator into the dark, dangerous world of Manderley, her new husband's home. It was his last major work of fiction. Cornwell (1999). Justtrykeeping track of the many plot twists inThe Woman in Whitewe dare you. [35] In The Heroine by Eaton Stannard Barrett (1813), Gothic tropes are exaggerated for comic effect. In Spain, the priest Pascual Prez Rodrguez was the most assiduous novelist in the Gothic way, closely aligned to the supernatural explained by Ann Radcliffe. Examples include Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, John Kennedy Toole, Manly Wade Wellman, Eudora Welty, Rhodi Hawk, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Flannery O'Connor, Davis Grubb, Anne Rice, Harper Lee and Cormac McCarthy. Professional academic writers. Catherine, Northanger Abbey'sprotagonist, can't get enough of books like Ann Radcliffe'sThe Mysteries of Udolpho. [61] His most explicitly Gothic work is his last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which he did not live to complete and was published unfinished upon his death in 1870. Le Fanu's short story collection In a Glass Darkly (1872) includes the superlative vampire tale Carmilla, which provided fresh blood for that particular strand of the Gothic and influenced Bram Stoker's vampire novel Dracula (1897). Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists. The Alien literary franchise consists of multiple novels and short stories based on the eponymous film franchise, which began in 1979 with the release of Alien.. [54] Another notable English author of penny dreadfuls is George W. M. Reynolds, known for The Mysteries of London (1844), Faust (1846), Wagner the Wehr-wolf (1847) and The Necromancer (1857). [65] Nobel Prize winner Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin wrote Dry Valley (1912), which is seen as influenced by Gothic literature. The Bronts' fictions were cited by feminist critic Ellen Moers as prime examples of Female Gothic, exploring woman's entrapment within domestic space and subjection to patriarchal authority, and the transgressive and dangerous attempts to subvert and escape such restriction. [98][99][100] When she meets Wilks and Billie, two battered veterans in the war against the aliens she realizes she's found two comrades in armsand she's ready to take up the fight. Miss Havisham from Great Expectations, a bitter recluse who shuts herself away in her gloomy mansion ever since being jilted at the altar on her wedding day, is one of Dickens most Gothic characters. [13] Tragedies such as Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet and Richard III, with plots revolving around the supernatural, revenge, murder, ghosts, witchcraft, omens, written in dramatic pathos, and set in medieval castles, was a huge influence upon early Gothic authors, who frequently quote, and make allusions to Shakespeare's works. WhileDragonwyckfeatures familiar elements, Anya Seton's intelligenthandling of them makes Miranda'sjourney feel fresh. These works juxtapose wealthy, ordered and affluent civilisation with the disorder and barbarity of the poor in the same metropolis. [17][18][19][20], Decades before the first documented use of the word "dystopia" was "cacotopia"/"kakotopia" (using Ancient Greek: s, "bad, wicked") originally proposed in 1818 by Jeremy Bentham, "As a match for utopia (or the imagined seat of the best government) suppose a cacotopia (or the imagined seat of the worst government) discovered and described". Milton's "version of the myth of the fall and redemption, creation and decreation, is, as Frankenstein again reveals, an important model for Gothic plots. All the latest news, views, sport and pictures from Dumfries and Galloway. Bierce's short stories were in the horrific and pessimistic tradition of Poe. refers to the 1868 speech by John Stuart Mill quoted above. [39] In the latter poem, the names of the characters, the dream visions and the macabre physical details are influenced by the novels of premiere Gothicist Ann Radcliffe. Bleak House in particular is credited with introducing urban fog to the novel, which would become a frequent characteristic of urban Gothic literature and film (Mighall 2007). on the lives of a group of high school students and their families. Lee Smith (born December 4, 1957) is an American former pitcher in professional baseball who played 18 years in Major League Baseball (MLB) for eight teams. [63], After Gogol, Russian literature saw the rise of Realism, but many authors continued to write stories within Gothic fiction territory. On the surface,Northanger Abbeyappears to be a Gothic novelbut it's actually an affectionate and deliberate parody of the novels that were extremely popular at the time ofpublication. Now could I drink hot blood, [55], 2. [19], The Gothic often uses scenery of decay, death, and morbidity to achieve its effects (especially in the Italian Horror school of Gothic). The latter is set in the aftermath of nuclear war, "a post-nuclear holocaust Kent, where technology has reduced to the level of the Iron Age". [80] The way Ulysses uses Gothic tropes such as ghosts and hauntings while removing the literally supernatural elements of 19th century Gothic fiction is indicative of a general form of modernist Gothic writing in the first half of the 20th century. Shop by department, purchase cars, fashion apparel, collectibles, sporting goods, cameras, baby items, and everything else on eBay, the world's online marketplace Michael Pursglove: "Does Russian gothic verse exist?" Here, the experts recommend the best Gothic novels and writers of all time, including offerings for young adults. In the 20th century, all Alien-related novels published were adaptations of pre-existing material. [66] Le Fanu's use of the gloomy villain, forbidding mansion and persecuted heroine in Uncle Silas (1864) shows direct influence from both Walpole's Otranto and Radcliffe's Udolpho. [27] Walpole did not initially prompt many imitators. Conversely, Dante's famous inscription Abandon all hope, ye who enter here would have been equally appropriate if placed at the entrance to Orwell's "Ministry of Love" and its notorious "Room 101". [58] Louisa May Alcott's Gothic potboiler, A Long Fatal Love Chase (written in 1866, but published in 1995) is also an interesting specimen of this subgenre. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard in 2017 involves an action hero and his wife trapped in a creepy plantation and mansion owned by a family with sinister and hideous secrets, solving puzzles, fighting enemies, and a terrifying visions of a ghostly mutant in the shape of a little girl. [102], Among the bestselling books of the 21st century, the YA novel Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, is now increasingly identified as a Gothic novel, as is Carlos Ruiz Zafn's 2001 novel The Shadow of the Wind.[103]. This marked the first time in the franchise where novels were original stories, rather than adaptations. Skarda, Patricia L., and Jaffe, Norma Crow (1981). "[citation needed], 'Oh, its the computer that did it, not me.' Contemporary American writers in the tradition include Joyce Carol Oates in such novels as Bellefleur and A Bloodsmoor Romance and short story collections such as Night-Side (Skarda 1986b), and Raymond Kennedy in his novel Lulu Incognito. (1827) features standard Gothic motifs, characters, and plotting, but with one significant twist: it is set in the twenty-second century and speculates on fantastic scientific developments that might have occurred four hundred years in the future, making it and Frankenstein among the earliest examples of the science fiction genre developing from Gothic traditions.[44]. 3649. But Dr. Sorcha N Fhlainn, a founding member of Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University and editor of Visions of the Vampire, says defining Gothic literature is not a concrete science. The novella follows agoverness who accepts a position in a crumbling old house, where she hears ghosts. [25] Due to this, they can be considered a subject of social studies. pp. Placing a story in a Gothic building serves several purposes. While many of his works feature gothic elements, the first considered to belong purely under the gothic fiction label is Ostrov Borngolm (Island of Bornholm) from 1793. Another example of this is reflected in Norman Jewison's 1975 film Rollerball (1975). [54], 4. Smith, Andrew and William Hughes. Buffy Summers (played by Sarah Michelle Gellar) is the "Slayer", one in a long line of young women chosen by fate to battle evil forces. Based on the earliest screenplay concept by, This page was last edited on 16 November 2022, at 22:33. See also Michael S. Roth, "A Dystopia of the Spirit" 230ff., Chap. All rights reserved. Walpole revealed himself as the true author in the second edition, which added the subtitle "A Gothic Story." The emergence of the ghost story gave women writers something to write about besides the common marriage plot, allowing them to present a more radical critique of male power, violence and predatory sexuality.[11]. Dr. Blue Marsalis, the physically handicapped scientist heading the experiments, secretly seeks to harvest a sample of a virulent mutagen produced by the Xenomorphs to cure her terminal degenerative illness. Battle Royale, The Running Man, The Hunger Games, Divergent, and The Purge). The corpses, skeletons, and churchyards so commonly associated with early Gothic works were popularized by the Graveyard poets, and were also present in novels such as Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year, which contains comical scenes of plague carts and piles of corpses. The latest Lifestyle | Daily Life news, tips, opinion and advice from The Sydney Morning Herald covering life and relationships, beauty, fashion, health & wellbeing ", "Why Do We Love Dystopian Stories So Much? The book is more concerned with social issues and the idea of a "good life" than hauntings, however. Enjoy millions of the latest Android apps, games, music, movies, TV, books, magazines & more. Technologies destroy nature (harming human health and the environment). Dark Sun featured an innovative metaplot, influential art work, dark themes, and a genre-bending take on traditional fantasy role-playing. Our global writing staff includes experienced ENL & ESL academic writers in a variety of disciplines. There are several archetypes that such societies tend to follow. But one by one the men on *Innominata *have been dying in the attempt to meld Alien and man. Andrew Norton-Schwartzbard noted that "written many centuries before the concept "dystopia" existed, Dante's Inferno in fact includes most of the typical characteristics associated with this genre even if placed in a religious framework rather than in the future of the mundane world, as modern dystopias tend to be". Throughout the 1990s, Bantam Books published nine novelizations of Alien comic books published by Dark Horse Comics. That's certainly true ofManderley, Maxim's ancestral home. Microsoft pleaded for its deal on the day of the Phase 2 decision last month, but now the gloves are well and truly off. This lets us find the most appropriate writer for any type of assignment. [54] Vicente Angeloti, "Leggere Dante con gli occhi del tardo Novecento", Trimestrale Letterario di Firenze, Estate 1987, pp. [40] Scott drew upon oral folklore, fireside tails, and ancient superstitions, often creating a juxtaposition between rationality and the supernatural. Dark Sun is an original Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) campaign setting set in the fictional, post-apocalyptic desert world of Athas. Cultists, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and zombies are common denizens of Innistrad. [33][34] Theo James, an actor in Divergent (originally a novel by Veronica Roth), explains that "young people in particular have such a fascination with this kind of story [] It's becoming part of the consciousness. [3] The form of a Gothic story is usually discontinuous and convoluted, often incorporating tales within tales, changing narrators, and framing devices such as discovered manuscripts or interpolated histories. [5] Other characteristics, regardless of relevance to the main plot, can include sleeplike and deathlike states, live burials, doubles, unnatural echoes or silences, the discovery of obscured family ties, unintelligible writings, and nocturnal landscapes and dreams. William Carleton was a notable Gothic writer, but he converted from Catholicism to Anglicanism during his life. Christopher Schmidt notes that, while the world goes to waste for future generations, people distract themselves from disaster by passively watching it as entertainment. [108], In role-playing games (RPG), the pioneering 1983 Dungeons & Dragons adventure Ravenloft instructs the players to defeat the vampire Strahd von Zarovich, who pines for his dead lover. [56], In addition to these short Gothic fictions were some novels which drew on the Gothic. Most critics simply used tags such as "Romanticism" and "fantastique", such as in the 1984 story collection translated into English as Russian 19th-Century Gothic Tales , but originally titled , literally, "The Fantastic World of Russian Romanticism Short Story/Novella". Wilks was a space marine with a near-fatal flaw: he had a heart. 3335 and 132133. Byron features as the title character in Lady Caroline's own Gothic novel Glenarvon (1816). Predator franchises. These dystopian government establishments often have protagonists or groups that lead a "resistance" to enact change within their society, as is seen in Alan Moore's V for Vendetta. Gothic ruins invoke multiple linked emotions by representing inevitable decay and the collapse of human creations hence the urge to add fake ruins as eyecatchers in English landscape parks. [34] After 1800 there was a period in which Gothic parodies outnumbered sincere Gothic novels. Disco Elysium is a detective RPG of improbable depth. Through aninnovative framework, Machado unpacks the experience of being in an abusive queer relationship. Yardley, Jonathan (16 March 2004). [2] The atmosphere is typically claustrophobic, and common plot elements include vengeful persecution, imprisonment, and murder. Fury 161 is a wretched planet - a penal colony and an industrial complex manned by violent prisoners. The example of first usage given in the OED (1989 ed.) Classic works of this Urban Gothic include Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), George du Maurier's Trilby (1894), Richard Marsh's The Beetle (1897), Henry James' The Turn of the Screw (1898), and the stories of Arthur Machen. 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