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First Piece of Gothic Literature
Horace Walpole wrote the first piece of Gothic literature called The Castle of Otrato -
Charles Brockden brown
The birth of one of literatures best Charles Brockden Brown. Brown had brought gothic literature over to America from England. He was able to combine history and add the gothic moods to his stories -
Going Above and Beyond
Novalist Ann Radcliffe was one of the first novalist to step out and add more complexity to genre -
Wieland or The Transformation
this is one of Charles Brockden Brown's great novels . About a religious fanatic who was being preyed upon by a ventriloquist. this tale contain relentless dark exploration of guilt , deception , and compulsion -
Edgar Huntly; or Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown
This piece by Brown is about unreal adventures that test the limits of the protagonist's self-knowledge. With a fuse of gothic themes with motifs drawn from the American wildrness -
Arthur Mervyn; or Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
In this epic story brown draws from his own experinces to create indelible scenes of Philadelphia devastated by a yellow fever epidemic while telling the story of a young man caught in the snares of a professional swindle -
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe He was known to capture the attention of his audience with his tales of horror and thrills one in particular "The Raven" -
Death of Charles Brockden Brown
Brown died on Feburary 22 1810 in Phildelphia where he died of tuberculosis -
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
This tale by Poe was a psychological as an unnamed narrator trys to defend his sanity and in the end confesses how he kills an old man. He explains his movtive for killing the old man because of the old man's pale blue eye -
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
The poem the Raven is narratored by an unnamed man who lost the one he loved named Lenore.The narrator is visited by a bird that may just be a bird, or that may be supernatural, or that may only be a figment of his imagination. In thinking about the bird and Lenore, the narrator slowly goes insane. -
Annabel-Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
Poe had done this poem in the form of a ballad where a man speaks about a woman he once knew and they kindled a relationship by the kingdom by the sea -
The Death of Edgar Allan Poe
Poe didnt have the best life he was i constant poverty and lost many of those he loved. But he was found in Baltimore on October 3 in great disstress then was brought to a hospital on October 7 where he died -
Birthday of H.P Lovecraft
Was young who was inspiried by the work of Edgar Allan Poe and went on to do great works of his own -
Death of H.P Lovecraft
Lovecraft died at the age of 46 after suffering for nearly a year from intestinal cancer and malnutrition. He died and suffered from the same thing that killed his father when he was young. -
Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by H.P Lovecraft
this novel was one of Lovecraft best works -
Dreams of Terror and Death by H.P Lovecraft
Another famous classic by Mr. Loveraft -
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales by H.P Lovecraft
The Barren, windswept interior of the Antarctic plateau was lifeless--or so the expedition from Miskatonic University thought. Then they found the strange fossils of unheard-of creatures...and the carved stones tens of millions of years old...and, finally, the mind-blasting terror of the City of the Old Ones. Three additional strange tales, written as only H.P. Lovecraft can write, are also included in this macabre collection of the strange and the weird.
