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Gothic literature stories6/5/2023 Skulduggery Pleasant opens when a twelve-year-old girl is saved by a fire-ball throwing detective, who is also a skeleton. Landy hybridizes elements from so many genres, including the Lovecraftian Weird, his books are impossible to summarize in a sentence. Derek Landy, (2007 – 2014): These books are a lot of fun.This is a fantastically inventive reimagining of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein with a striking ending. Chris Priestley, Mister Creecher (2011): I don’t like to have favorites, but I do, and it’s Mister Creecher.Harrowing stuff, but a truly important book about Britain’s imperial past, which is all too often whitewashed. Bali Rai, City of Ghosts (2009): Rai’s novel is a ghost story of sorts, one that takes readers back to Amritsar in 1919 when the British army murdered hundreds of Indian civilians.Adapted by director Henry Selick into a sinister stop-motion animation in 2009, Coraline really kickstarts 21 st Century Children’s Gothic. Neil Gaiman’s Coraline (2002): Gaiman’s terrifying tale of a haunted house playfully rewrites elements of Lewis Carroll’s Alice Through the Looking Glass by way of Freud’s essay on the “Uncanny”.There are gory scenes of blood transfusion, a terrifying private medical institution, and a strong feminist message. Its dual timeline narrative tracks a nineteenth-century Vampire as he closes in on his prey.
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