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Supernatural Beings in Horror - a Timeline (P1), Plot, MS. Found in a…
Supernatural Beings in Horror - a Timeline (P1)
Chapter 7
The man of the crowd(1840)—man who mingles with streams of people afraid to be along
Metzengerstein(1832)—malign hints of a monstrous metempsychosis
Ligeia& the fall of the house of usher—simple tales, straightforward
Edgar Allen Poe paved the way for horror stories:
M. Valdemar（1845)—kept by hypnotism for seven month after death
Chapter 3
1785 Sophia Lee -- The Recess
1777 Clara Reeve -- The Old English
Baron
Restorning heritage of castle from ghost father
1 spectral character
1773 Anna Laetitia Barbauld & Lucy Aikin -- Sir Bertrand: A Fragment
Nobleman entering a strange castle
Distant light within a swamp
Castle hold coffin of a dead lady whom Bertrand kiss and revive
1764 Horace Walpole -- Castle of Otranto
Flat stilited tale
In touch with strangeness and spectural antiquity
Create novel type of scene, puppet characters & incidents
First Gothic Castle
Touches of strangeness and spectral antiquity -- the thirst of the age
Chapter 6
Eg: Huldbrand loved another woman, and Undine was angry and took away his live => Undine is supernatural
Time: Earlier 19th century & German
Time: early 19th century & France
Eg: The Horla
Horla (Supernatural) relied on water and milk
Sways others' minds
Eg: The Louis Lambert and The Wild Ass's Sin
employ supernaturalism
More human end
Time: thirty years' war & Location: Germany
Maria was accused to Witchcraft, Meinho 1d's (supernatural) saved her
Time: Middle Age & Jewish
Eg: The Golem- the ancient ghetto
Old Testament and derivation of dark
Eg: The Dybbuk: evil soul of dead man in a living body
Chapter 5
1st Goth novels, 1st French novels
Influenced by Arabian Nights
mix with weirdness
Result of ambition for throne (power)
Life and Letters of William Beckford
No mysticism, hardness and clearness -> sheer panic fright
19th century romantic, semi-Gothic, quasi-moral tradition
Joseph Sheridan LeFanu
Wilkie Collins
Sir H
“A Strange Story” - improvement in creation of weird images & moods
“The House and the Brain” - Rosicrucianism
Utopian economic theorist William Godwin
Elixir of life
Frankenstein
Moral ditacticism
Artificial human being
Chapter 4
The Monk
Monk Louis is tempted by Devil and trades his soul with the Devil for escaping
The devil betrays him, not granting freedom to him
Appalling description: incantation + burning of nunnery; dead body visiting Marquis’s bedside;
Broke Radcliffian tradition
Trading soul to Devil
The Melmoth
Chapter 2
Earliest form of Horror Literature exists across cultures
Book of Enoch/Claviculae of Solomon
Plot
MS. Found in a bottle（1833）—sunken ship