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Lady Soth, please, I think you deserve the honour of posing the next question.

OK Ail, Thanks! Here we go:

What book published in 1938 was a wildly popular Gothic Romance?

Bonus Question:
What 1800s Gothic tale is this work often compared to?

Come now my friends. . .

is it really so difficult?

Anybody need some hints???? Or has the topic been (once again) relegated to the grave?

'Gone with the Wind' and 'Wuthering Heights'?

Manofevil wrote:'Gone with the Wind' and 'Wuthering Heights'?

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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.
It is said to be similar to Jane Eyre.

Ail wrote:Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.
It is said to be similar to Jane Eyre.

You got it!!!! Good job!

(although I did like the Gone With the Wind guess though, Manoevil )

Go ahead and post the next question Ail!

Time to go back to Frankenstein (again!)

While Gothic per se began in the XVIII century with the Castle of Otranto, there is an earlier book, published in 1667, that was a considerable influence in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Its influence probably extends farther than that, and at least in one Van Richten Monster Hunter's Compendium it is cited at one of those pages beginning individual guides.

In Shelley's novel above, it is one of the books the monster read, and one it relates very much to. What is this book called, and by whom?

Trivia and Bonus question: in the quote mentioned above in VRMHC, the book is attributed to the wrong author. To whom?

Ail wrote:Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.
It is said to be similar to Jane Eyre.

That I didn't think of. Good work! You fooled me!

I think the book you are referring to is Paradise Lost, by John Milton. If so, here's my contribution:

This short story is considered its author's most famous work of prose and it's also considered a masterpiece of American Gothic literature. G. R. Thomson once wrote: "the tale has long been hailed as a masterpiece of Gothic horror; it is also a masterpiece of dramatic irony and structural symbolism."
It was published in 1939.

Don Fernando wrote:I think the book you are referring to is Paradise Lost, by John Milton. If so, here's my contribution:

This short story is considered its author's most famous work of prose and it's also considered a masterpiece of American Gothic literature. G. R. Thomson once wrote: "the tale has long been hailed as a masterpiece of Gothic horror; it is also a masterpiece of dramatic irony and structural symbolism."
It was published in 1939.

Yep, I am.
The quote is in VRMHC - I, at the beginning of the Guide to the Created, and is attributed to John Keats.

Wheeee, great! And here I thought I was just taking a wild guess

The VRMHC part didn't know the answer. I left my copy at my parent's house... (I won't get it back until next christmas.. )