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![]() ![]() ![]() Heck, even Scooby-Doo beat Jackson to the punch by blending one part Gothic tale with one part the Hardy Brothers mystery and adding a dash of cartoony goodness. Other writers taking up the Gothic tradition before Jackson include a pantheon of literary awesomeness: try Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and William Faulkner on for size. Horace's trademark setting gave the genre its name and made generations of writers and readers addicted to stories of decaying medieval castles, hidden passages behind bookcases, and mysteries surrounding ancient curses. That honor usually goes to Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story, from way back in 1765. ![]() Now, Shirley Jackson didn't invent the Gothic haunted house. The Haunting of Hill Housebegan scaring years off its readers' lives in 1959 and hasn't stopped since. ![]()
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