What is Gothic fiction?
[[File:CastleOtranto.png|thumb|]] '''Gothic fiction''' is a type of [[fiction]] which combines parts of both [[horror]] and [[Romance (love)|romance]]. The genre is said to have started in [[England]] in 1764 with [[Horace Walpole]]'s book ''[[The Castle of Otranto]]''. ''The Castle of Otranto''<nowiki/>'s second edition was subtitled ''A Gothic Story''.<ref>Kilgour, Maggie 1995. ''The rise of the gothic novel''. London: Routledge.</ref> The idea quickly spread to other European languages. A famous early example of gothic fiction is ''[[Frankenstein]]'' by [[Mary Shelley]], in the early 19th Century.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.biography.com/people/mary-shelley-9481497 | title=Mary Shelley - Life, Frankenstein & Books | date=6 May 2021 }}</ref> [[Edgar Allen Poe|Edgar Allen Poe's]] work and [[Bram Stoker]]'s ''[[Dracula]]'' were written later.<ref>Bloom, Clive 2007. ''Gothic horror: a guide for students and readers''. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{-}} {{lit-stub}} [[Category:Genres of fiction]]