Classic Gothic Ghost Stories

Our interest in horror and mystery is mainly based on our culture. This is true, the gothic horror story of literature is the birthplace of this enchantment. Here you will find some classical classics, especially for introducing readers about this attractive literary field.

Traditional Gothic literature is neither a vivid ghost story nor a horror, but has grotesque elements that continue to influence everything from pulp novels to broken pictures. In the latter part of the 18th century when rational classicism was admired, Gothic style lighting became popular for the first time. But these classic Gothic stories focus on the deep doubts and fears left by the Enlightenment: unconverted Catholics, corruption, authoritarian aristocracy, and the superstitions they embody injustice. For this purpose, the traditional Gothic story is a rotten, maze-like castle capturing a collapsed monk and priest, an innocent girl and a hardworking hero, a ghost in the tower, a hot unhealthy chain, a weakness Including stories. Nobles are their last line and are traps of social status as symbolized by damp dungeons and graves. When Goth is headed to the United States, those same themes reappear with amazing and sharp changes.

One of the keys to the initial appearance of Ghost was the Otranto Castle of Horace Walpole, 1644, which is considered the first Gothic novel. However, the ghost story shares supernatural use with Gothic novels, but the two formats are different. Unlike Gothic novels, ghost stories usually occur at locations close to the viewers of the story. A modern short story appeared in Germany in the early 19th century. In 1810, Christ's "Lokano Women" and some other works claimed to be the first contemporary ghost story. E. T. A. Hoffman's ghost story has "basic spirit" and "Falun Gong landmines".

One of the earliest UK ghost story writers was Sir Walter Scott. His ghost story, "The Wandering Willy's Story" (published for the first time as a part of Redgauntlet in 1824) and The Tapestried Chamber (1828) avoided the writing of "Gothic", the stage for later writers I made it. For example. Jack Sullivan, a historian of the ghost story, points out that many literary critics believe that there is a "golden age of the ghost story" between the decline of the Gothic novel in the 1930s and the beginning of the First World War Did. Sullivan believes that the work of Edgar Allan Poe and Sheridan Le Fanu revealed the introduction to this "golden age".