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Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.

~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Topics: Accomplished Beyond Castles Century Continue Days Evolve Examples Film Flourish Genre Gloomy Gothic However Interesting Literature Many Mention Most Picture Producing Readers Since Sinister Some Truth Truth Is Will 20Th Century

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Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Topics: Good Gothic Jackson Literature Must Shirley Writings

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If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Bottom Building Capital Column Dating Detail Dinosaur Down Exactly Exactly What Good Gothic Historian Infer Like Look Parts Rest Right Small Tell Version Whole Why You

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Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Treasure.' Written by Florence Parry Heide and illustrated by the great Edward Gorey, master of the gothic and the macabre, these books are small masterpieces.

~Chris Riddell

Topics: Books Copy Edward Find Florence Go Gothic Great Illustrated Master Masterpieces Out Sequel Shrinking Small Treasure Written

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Edinburgh is a sort of gothic fairytale city, and it can be a gothic horror city as well.

~David Mackenzie

Topics: City Edinburgh Fairytale Gothic Horror Sort Well

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Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' comics have a drizzly, musty gothic ambience - the same fetid air that H. P. Lovecraft circulated in his fiction.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Air Ambience Comics Fiction Gothic His Mike Same

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To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.

~Gail Carriger

Topics: Because Both Early Fantasy Gothic Literature Love Me Movement Naturally Spring Things Think Together Urban Victorian I Think I Love

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I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.

~Gail Carriger

Topics: Also Classics Comedy Dose Good Gothic Like Original Readers

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So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity.

~George Saunders

Topics: Childhood Gothic Had Makes May Own I May Not

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