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The Gothic Imagination invades the British Library

This is the  perfect time of year to get spooked out and The British Library is helping the cause with their latest exhibit, Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination.   Comprised of two hundred objects spanning two hundred and fifty years of Gothic literature the exhibit "presents an intriguing glimpse of a fascinating and mysterious world." image Universal /The Kobal Collection Starting with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto and ending with the current zombie craze: The show provides plenty of insight into novels such as The Mysteries of Udolpho, Frankenstein, Northanger Abbey, Dracula and Rebecca but it also explores, among many other themes, the...

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