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So In class I Watch a video about "History of Gothic Literature or Horror" where we learned the origin of the horror genre. And can any one please write me a paragraph or two about this please I really need it it's due tmr.

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Gothic fiction began as a sophisticated joke. Horace Walpole first applied the word 'Gothic' to a novel in the subtitle – 'A Gothic Story' – of The Castle of Otranto, published in 1764. When he used the word it meant something like 'barbarous', as well as 'deriving from the Middle Ages'

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