gothic literature
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A childish nightmare, a strange figure in the night. A woman whose silence is both eerie and beautiful… Enter the dark tale of E.T.A Hoffman, whose story ‘The Sandman’ so disturbed Sigmund Freud that the psychologist created the concept of The Uncanny. The Uncanny, wrote Freud, ‘undoubtedly belongs to all that is terrible — to
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A dark forest. The bite of an apple. A coffin made of glass. Enter the vampiric fairy tale of Tanith Lee—where the victim is the villain, and the witch must fight to survive. Snow White is a story brimming with vampire symbolism, but what was Tanith Lee saying when she rewrote the fairy tale in blood and
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