Tag: ghosts
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It just had to be Liverpool. Modern horror stories in books and on screen are set in Victorian England, circulating around London (Ripper street, Whitechapel, Penny Dreadful etc) or isolated mansions in fictional villages and towns modelled on the home counties of southern England. While the classics explore the South West (Hardy) and industrial towns…
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Shirley Jackson published The Haunting Of Hill House in 1959, and thanks to a recent Netflix adaptation, its popularity lives on. Known especially for its hallmark Gothic horror story and the unreliable narrator, this psychologically suspenseful ghost story is a modern classic. Hunting for evidence of the occult, Dr Montague invites three participants to Hill…
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Gothic horror books and governesses go hand in hand with ghosts and other supernatural weirdness, don’t they? If you’re a fan of classic and modern Gothic horror, you need to know about these books.
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Speculative fiction is a term we now use to describe several genres and sub-genres of literature. Think of it as an all-encompassing umbrella term for: Speculative fiction simply means: somewhere other than the world you live in right now. I have a Masters degree in Popular Literatures (after completing a BA hons in English Literature)…
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They key differences between Gothic fiction and other sub-genres like romance, horror and mystery lies in the atmosphere.
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Liverpool’s haunted history and how it influenced the Gothic Mystery novel The Spider.
