Gothic double - Wikipedia
A standard trope in the genre is a nagging uncertainty about whether the double is real at all. Is this actually an identical stranger, or are they a long-lost twin?
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
The genre we describe as horror today has its roots in the romance and Gothic genres of the eighteenth century, which in turn were influenced by the pre-Romantic movement known as the Graveyard Poets,
David Demchuk • Red X: A Novel
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Includes Essay About the History of the Horror Genre)
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