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"The difference between Terror and Horror is the difference between awful apprehension and sickening realization: between the smell of death and stumbling against a corpse." --The Gothic Flame (1957) by Devendra Varma

"Finally, there is the archetypal function of the basic gothic story; for such a function it must have or it could not have persisted as it did.” --Love and Death in the American Novel (1960) by Leslie Fiedler, p. 128.

Ruin of the Castle of Machecoul of Gilles de Rais
Ruin of the Castle of Machecoul of Gilles de Rais

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Kunstformen der Natur (1904) by Ernst Haeckel
Kunstformen der Natur (1904) by Ernst Haeckel


Gothic may refer to:


Germanic people

    • Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken by the Crimean Goths

Medieval culture


Modern culture


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