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Gothic Horror:-

A genre of literature, film and art.

It originated in 1500 in central Paris. Key figures in the development of Gothic Horror are Isobelle Schmidt, Henry Kookri and Timothy Cullion.

Examples of films: A moody night in Manchester, The midnight massacre, Forever engraved, Dracula, Frankenstein, Sharply shadowed, The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Newspaper Nightmares.

The genre features of Gothic Horror:

Nightmares,

Isolation

Weather ( Pathetic Fallacy)

Death/Murder

Supernatural Creatures.

The Gothic Creator

In 1547 Emanuel Cowling invented the term Pathetic Fallacy. This is a technique in gothic genre I which the weather mirrors the direction of the plot and the emotional state of the characters. This can be shown in his 1548 production of Lady Malfi's Last son.

In this story Lady Malfi returns home late at night, in the middle of the worst storm in the town, ever recorded in history. The rain is torrential and the thunder and lightening is deafening. She enters her mansion to find no one is at home. Her husband has disappeared. Then she steps into the kitchen to prepare a late night snack...her husband is found...dead.