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This 7 page
report discusses how British horror stories and novels influenced those produced by
Americans. Particular attention is paid to the 19th century which can be seen as the true
“birthplace” of the horror genre in literature. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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on American literature can be seen in contemporary times as well as throughout the 250 years since the British colonists in North America began thinking of themselves as a different
"kind" of people. However, throughout the latter part of the 19th century, when horror stories began to truly emerge as a unique literary genre, one of the commonalties that existed
between both British and English writers were the constraints of the Victorian Age and its attendant repression. Writers on both sides of the Atlantic understood that there was something deeper
in the human psyche than that which was allowed to be expressed in "proper society." It was possible that, within every person, there lurked a Mr. Hyde, a "tell-tale heart,"
or Victor Frankensteins "creature." Exploring that "other" served as the catalyst for the creation of horror literature and remains at its core in the 21st century. The First "Breathless
Horror" The student working on this project can use Mary Wollstonecraft Shelleys "Frankenstein -- The Modern Prometheus" (originally published in 1818) as a good example of how and when
horror literature actually reached the mainstream reading public. Gehring comments: "Of the genres of the fantastic (horror, science fiction, and fantasy), horror has generated the most serious study.
Fright master Stephen King credits this to the acclaimed literary trilogy of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevensons Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Bram Stokers Dracula. King calls them
the foundation for all scary stories" (68). Shelley should be understood as one of the foremothers of the horror genre and that much that followed her work was an
attempt to copy it. Admittedly, there were British horror writers before Shelley, most notably Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe but it was Shellys "Frankenstein" that can best be defined as
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