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wild landscapes remote or exotic locales dimly lit, gloomy settings ruins or isolated crumbling castles or mansions (later cities and houses) dark towers, hidden rooms dream states or nightmares found manuscripts or artifacts ancestral curses family secrets damsels in distress marvelous or mysterious creatures, monsters, spirits, or strangers scientific tone (fantastic events observed empirically) unnatural acts of nature (blood-red moon, sudden fierce wind, etc.)

The Gothic novel had wild, haunted landscapes It had supernatural events in the plot It was often mysterious The Gothic concept had its roots in France, Germany*, & England *Gothic – 1. Adj. of or relating to eastern Germany (the Goths) 2. In literature: containing elements of the grotesque, bizarre, and/or mysterious Edgar Allen Poe was American Gothicism’s greatest author

American landscapes did not provide the ancient locales of Europe – i.e. no 1000 year old castles or cemeteries Focused on a psychological exploration of the human mind Fear Anxiety Paranoia Sanity Melancholy

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.“ “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

PoemsShort Stories The RavenA Tell Tale Heart Annabel LeeThe Pit and the Pendulum The BellsThe Masque of the Red Death A Dream Within a Dream Eldorado