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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Thank goodness none of his examples of appropriate, "traditional" authors ever wrote any works that contained any of that nonsense. 
Frankenstein
A Christmas Carol
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Tempest
Ode to a Nightingale |
I have just downloaded
Masters of Gothic Horror from
Delphi Classics (It is free)
This is the table of contents:
THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO by Ann Radcliffe
FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI by John Keats
THE VAMPYRE by Henry Colburn
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER by Edgar Allan Poe
WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Brontė (sic!)
THE DOOM OF THE GRIFFITHS by Elizabeth Gaskell
THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE by Robert Louis Stevenson
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD by Charles Dickens
THE GREAT GOD PAN by Arthur Machen
THE BOARDED WINDOW by Ambrose Bierce
THE YELLOW SIGN by Robert W. Chambers
THE WILLOWS by Algernon Blackwood
UNCLE SILAS by Sheridan Le Fanu
DRACULA by Bram Stoker
Certainly all great writers of classical literature.
Dracula really frightened me as a young boy.
. But I still loved it.