1. What do you know about…
Gothic Literature?

2. Gothic Literature can be found starting in the late 1700’s and continues today in film.

3. Horror
Mary Shelley
Monster
Victor
Created Life
The Modern Prometheus

4. Frankenstein Gothic Literature has a few archetypes:
Virginal maiden, Hero, Tyrant, Clowns, Clergy, Ruffians

5. Madeline
Edgar Allen Poe
Buried Alive
Roderick Usher
“The Haunted Palace”

6. The Fall of the House of Usher
Some of the more modern examples of Gothic Fiction are:
The Shadow of the Wind (2001), Shutter Island (2003), The Thirteenth Tale (2006)

7. Vicomte de Chagny
Paris
Gaston Leroux
Phantom
Christine

8. The Phantom of the Opera
There were a number of parodies written that made fun of the stereotypes and frequent absurdities.

9. Bath, England
Mysteries of Udolpho
Henry Tilney
Catherine Morland
Jane Austen

10. Northanger Abbey