![]() ![]() Otranto inspired Vathek (1786) by William Beckford, A Sicilian Romance (1790), The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) and The Italian (1796) by Ann Radcliffe and The Monk (1797) by Matthew Lewis. Once revealed as modern, many found it anachronistic, reactionary, or simply in poor taste but it proved immediately popular. In fact, the first edition was published disguised as an actual medieval romance from Italy, discovered and republished by a fictitious translator. It drew on the written and material heritage of the Late Middle Ages, finding its form with Horace Walpole's seminal and controversial 1764 novel, The Castle of Otranto. ![]() The 18th century saw the gradual development of Romanticism and the Gothic horror genre. 18th century Horace Walpole wrote the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), initiating a new literary genre. The motif of the vampiress is most notably derived from the real-life noblewoman and murderer, Elizabeth Bathory, and helped usher in the emergence of horror fiction in the 18th century, such as through László Turóczi's 1729 book Tragica Historia. The alleged serial-killer sprees of Gilles de Rais have been seen as the inspiration for " Bluebeard". A 1499 pamphlet was published by Markus Ayrer, which is most notable for its woodcut imagery. Dracula can be traced to the Prince of Wallachia Vlad III, whose alleged war crimes were published in German pamphlets. Much horror fiction derives from the cruellest personages of the 15th century. Anonymous writers penned two werewolf stories, "Biclarel" and " Melion". The Countess Yolande commissioned a werewolf story titled " Guillaume de Palerme". Vlad III "The Impaler", the inspiration for Count Dracula. One of Marie de France's twelve lais is a werewolf story titled " Bisclavret". Werewolf stories were popular in medieval French literature. The Witch of Berkeley by William of Malmesbury has been viewed as an early horror story. Įlements of the horror genre also occur in Biblical texts, notably in the Book of Revelation. The figure disappeared in the courtyard the following day, the magistrates dug in the courtyard and found an unmarked grave. While writing a book on philosophy, he was visited by a ghostly figure bound in chains. Athenodorus was cautious since the house seemed inexpensive. 113) tells the tale of Athenodorus Cananites, who bought a haunted house in Athens. In Plutarch's The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans in the account of Cimon, the author describes the spirit of a murderer, Damon, who himself was murdered in a bathhouse in Chaeronea. Euripides wrote plays based on the story, Hippolytos Kalyptomenos and Hippolytus. Mary Shelley's well-known 1818 novel about Frankenstein was greatly influenced by the story of Hippolytus, whom Asclepius revives from death. European horror-fiction became established through works of the Ancient Greeks and Ancient Romans. These manifested in stories of beings such as demons, witches, vampires, werewolves and ghosts. The horror genre has ancient origins, with roots in folklore and religious traditions focusing on death, the afterlife, evil, the demonic and the principle of the thing embodied in the person. Prevalent elements include ghosts, demons, vampires, monsters, zombies, werewolves, the Devil, serial killers, extraterrestrial life, killer toys, psychopaths, sexual deviancy, rape, gore, torture, evil clowns, cults, cannibalism, vicious animals, the apocalypse, evil witches, dystopia and man-made or natural disasters. ![]() Often the central menace of a work of horror fiction can be interpreted as a metaphor for larger fears of a society. Horror intends to create an eerie and frightening atmosphere for the reader. which shocks, or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing". Cuddon, in 1984, defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length. Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural horror, which are in the realm of speculative fiction. Horror is a genre of fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten or scare. ![]()
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