#gothic terror

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The ‘uncanny’ is that class of the terrifying which leads back to something long known to us, once very familiar.

—The Gothic and the Art of Memory

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Robert Muller - Supernatural: Haunting Stories of Gothic Terror - Fontana - 1977

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Science and monsters coexist in the Gothic novel.

—Studies in Gothic Fiction

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The terrifying events at the core of Gothic romance take place in an alien world set apart from normal quotidian experience and from the logical and moral laws of everyday reality. It is also separated from the usual social relations of life in its outward forms, although — and this fact has never been adequately recognized — those relations reappear in this alien world in disguise and are in many ways its primary subject.

—Perils of the Night

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The reader’s repeated experience of the spectacle of suffering, and specifically the reader’s struggle with the blank spots or gaps that the scenes inevitably enact, is the most important part of the reading experience.

—Repetition and the Pleasure of the Gothic

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What seemed at first menacing is revealed as both tolerable and desirable.

—The Radcliffean Gothic Model

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What the Gothic does is to take the ordinary stuff of our ordinary lives – our clothes, books, houses, toys, bodies, and so on – and overwhelm us with them by giving them uncanny life, making them seem hateful and wrong: the ordinary made ominous. This is the menace of the Gothic, as well as its profundity: It asserts that the world is not some passive substrate to be acted upon by human beings who are in control of everything; instead, the Gothic shows us the thing-power and place-power of the world.

—Gothic Things

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“Specter Bridegroom” narratives in folk ballads (…) generally serve as warnings against either being tricked by spirits or letting one’s grief lead to one’s own death.

—The Gothic Library

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