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Gothic fiction and Horror fiction

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Difference between Gothic fiction and Horror fiction

Gothic fiction vs. Horror fiction

Gothic fiction, which is largely known by the subgenre of Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death, and at times romance. Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror.

Similarities between Gothic fiction and Horror fiction

Gothic fiction and Horror fiction have 41 things in common (in Unionpedia): A Sicilian Romance, Ann Radcliffe, Anne Rice, Bram Stoker, Catholic Church, Dracula, Edgar Allan Poe, Frankenstein, Gaston Leroux, H. P. Lovecraft, Horace Walpole, Joyce Carol Oates, M. R. James, Mary Shelley, Matthew Lewis (writer), Novella, Oscar Wilde, Psycho (novel), Robert Bloch, Robert Louis Stevenson, Satanism, Sheridan Le Fanu, Stephen King, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Supernatural, Supernatural Horror in Literature, The Castle of Otranto, The Italian (novel), The Monk, The Mysteries of Udolpho, ..., The New Monthly Magazine, The Phantom of the Opera, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vampire, Varney the Vampire, Vathek, Victorian era, Weird fiction, Weird Tales, Werewolf, William Thomas Beckford. Expand index (11 more) »

A Sicilian Romance

A Sicilian Romance is a gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe.

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Ann Radcliffe

Ann Radcliffe (born Ward, 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English author and pioneer of the Gothic novel.

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Anne Rice

Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941) is an American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotica.

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Bram Stoker

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Dracula

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.

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Frankenstein

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797–1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

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Gaston Leroux

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 186815 April 1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.

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H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction.

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Horace Walpole

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), also known as Horace Walpole, was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician.

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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer.

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M. R. James

Montague Rhodes James (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936), who published under the name M. R. James, was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–18), and of Eton College (1918–36).

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Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel ''Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818).

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Matthew Lewis (writer)

Matthew Gregory Lewis (9 July 1775 – 14 or 16 May 1818) was an English novelist and dramatist, often referred to as "Monk" Lewis, because of the success of his 1796 Gothic novel, The Monk.

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Novella

A novella is a text of written, fictional, narrative prose normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel, somewhere between 7,500 and 40,000 words.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Psycho (novel)

Psycho (1959) is a thriller novel by American writer Robert Bloch.

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Robert Bloch

Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer.

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Satanism

Satanism is a group of ideological and philosophical beliefs based on Satan.

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Sheridan Le Fanu

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction.

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.

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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson first published in 1886.

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Supernatural

The supernatural (Medieval Latin: supernātūrālis: supra "above" + naturalis "natural", first used: 1520–1530 AD) is that which exists (or is claimed to exist), yet cannot be explained by laws of nature.

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Supernatural Horror in Literature

"Supernatural Horror in Literature" is a long essay by the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft surveying the topic of horror fiction.

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The Castle of Otranto

The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole.

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The Italian (novel)

The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents (1797) is a Gothic novel written by the English author Ann Radcliffe.

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The Monk

The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796.

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The Mysteries of Udolpho

The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe, was published in four volumes on 8 May 1794 by G. G. and J. Robinson of London.

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The New Monthly Magazine

The New Monthly Magazine was a British monthly magazine published by Henry Colburn between 1814 and 1884.

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The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera (French: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.

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Vampire

A vampire is a being from folklore that subsists by feeding on the vital force (generally in the form of blood) of the living.

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Varney the Vampire

Varney the Vampire; or, the Feast of Blood is a Victorian era serialized gothic horror story variously attributed to James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest.

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Vathek

Vathek (alternatively titled Vathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph Vathek) is a Gothic novel written by William Beckford.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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Weird fiction

Weird fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Weird Tales

Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine founded by J. C. Henneberger and J. M. Lansinger in March 1923.

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Werewolf

In folklore, a werewolf (werwulf, "man-wolf") or occasionally lycanthrope (λυκάνθρωπος lukánthrōpos, "wolf-person") is a human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf (or, especially in modern film, a therianthropic hybrid wolflike creature), either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction (often a bite or scratch from another werewolf).

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William Thomas Beckford

William Thomas Beckford (1 October 1760 – 2 May 1844) was an English novelist, a profligate and consummately knowledgeable art collector and patron of works of decorative art, a critic, travel writer and sometime politician, reputed at one stage in his life to be the richest commoner in England.

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Gothic fiction and Horror fiction Comparison

Gothic fiction has 330 relations, while Horror fiction has 229. As they have in common 41, the Jaccard index is 7.33% = 41 / (330 + 229).

References

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