- The Gothic genre has had a huge impact on all styles of writing.
- Since the Gothic genre has been created there has been many kinds of Gothic writings published.
- Author's have expanded Gothic literature to a whole different level focusing on things other than vampires and murder.
- Although it has expanded the "old stuff" is still very popular today and is still an inspiration for today's Gothic literature authors.
- Written by Agatha Christie
- A story about ten people who are accused of some type of murder are brought to the same island by a letter. When they all get to the island everything seems fine until a recording is played of all their accusations. After that, one by one the people start to die according to the poem "Ten Little Indians." Through the book they all start to suspect each other until they die. At the end of the book someone finds a note in a bottle with a confession from one of the people on the island and how and why they did it.
- An African American woman named Phoenix Jackson, walks through the woods into town to pick of medicine for her grandson that accidentally swallowed lye a few years before. Her grandson's throat never heals completely and sometimes swells up so she makes the trip to the clinic whenever needed. On her trip she runs into many difficulties like a dog, and she tries to hit it with a cane but misses and tumbles into a ditch where she is saved by a hunter, and steals a nickle from him. He puts a gun to her head but loses interest when she isn't scared. When she gets to the clinic the nurse treats her in a way she doesn't like but that doesn't stop her from getting the medicine needed for her grandson.
- Written by Flannery O'Connor.
The story beings with a Grandmother complaining to her son Bailey, that she would rather go to Tennessee for vacation than Florida. The family still decides to go to Florida, and on their way they stop to eat at a diner called "The Tower." The grandmother strikes up conversation with the owner about an escaped murderer called "The Misfit." When they get back on the road the grandmother is telling old stories about a nearby home to try and detour the family away from the Florida trip. The grandchildren annoy their father until he finally agrees to go to the house that their grandmother is taking about. when the grandmother realizes the house is in Tennessee and not Georgia she starts to yell and scares her cat that causes them to wreck. As the family waits for help they see a car approach them and three men get out, one with a gun. The men start conversation with the Bailey until finally the grandmother realizes that the man is "The Misfit." The Misfit makes his men take the family into the woods an kill them one by one. The grandmother then begins to beg for her life. When that doesn't work she begins preaching to him about God. After the Misfit kills the grandmother the last thig he says is "she would have been a good woman, if there had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."
- Bram Stoker was born Abraham Stoker on November 8, 1847, in Clontarf, north of Dublin, Ireland.
- Stoker was number three of seven children.
- Stoker was always ill as a child so he had time to read many books and listen to the horror stories his mother told him.
- That led him to write ghost stories as a child.
- After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin in 1868 with honors in mathematics, Stoker took a civil service position, but he most enjoyed going to the theater in his free time.
- In 1882, Stoker published his first book, Under the Sunset, a book of twisted children's stories.
- Eight years later, he published his first novel, The Snake's Pass.
- In 1897 he published Dracula, which really gave him attention from the critics.
- Nearing the end of his life Stoker and his wife became poor, and he looked to others for help.
- Stoker died of syphilis on April 20, 1912, in London.
- In 1914, she married Archie Christie, a World War I fighter pilot.
- While Archie was at war Christie worked as a nurse which gave her the idea for her first book "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"
- After her first published book Agatha wrote over 30 more dectective stories.
- In 1926 Archie asked her for a divorce because he had fallen in love with another woman. Agatha couldn't take the stress of the divorce and her mother passing so she disappears for three days.
- She later falls in love again with Max Mallowen, a young archaeologist.
- Christie became the Queen of the Golden Age.
- In 1971 she was awarded the high honor of becoming a Dame of the British Empire.
- Agatha Christie was born in Devon, England in 1980.
- She was the youngest of three children, raised in a very conservative home.
- As a child Agatha was home schooled and created games to keep herself busy.
- She was a very shy child that had trouble expressing her feelings.
- She used music to help, and later took an interest in writing.
- The history of Gothic Literature can be traced back to as early as the 18th century.
- The gothic movement started in 1764, and it took over sixty years for it to really take off.
- It is believed to be started by Horrace Walpole with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto.
- The word "gothic" is very old, and was used from the Renaissance on to signify the art style of the middle ages.
