Facts about Horror Genre in Literature
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Ann Radcliffe's Gothic novels of the 1790s introduced the concept of 'explained supernatural,' rationalizing seemingly ghostly events through natural causes.
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Stephen King's novel Carrie, published in 1974, was his first published novel and helped revitalize commercial horror fiction in the late twentieth century.
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Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, published in 1959, is frequently cited by scholars as one of the greatest horror novels ever written in English.
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Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, including The Tell-Tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher, helped establish psychological horror as a distinct literary mode.
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, published in 1818, is considered a foundational text of both horror literature and science fiction.
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Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, published in 1764, is widely regarded as the first Gothic horror novel in English literature.