Name : Pooja Byhaliya K.Paper No. 10 (American Literature)Enrolment no. PG15101002

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Bhavnagar University

Gothic Elements in Poe’s Short Story

Context

What is the Gothic elements?What is Gothic literature?Gothic aliments in the Poe’s story.

Gothic LiteratureAnd the

Works of Edgar Allan Poe

The Gothic Tradition

Began in EuropeFirst Gothic Work:

1765 The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole

Two Early Works:Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818)Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897)

Characteristics of Gothic Fiction

MysteryHorrorThe GrotesqueViolenceThe Supernatural

Poe can be considered the father of the modern horror story, influencing writers such as Stephen King and Anne Rice

Poe

Master of the Short Story

Master of the Short Story

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