Dracula by Bram Stoker: Gothic literature

                                Characteristics of Gothic Literature:

• Dark, mysterious, evil tone
• Setting: dark castles, chambers, haunted mansions in isolated settings
• Mysterious happenings - supernatural and/or paranormal occurrences
• Religion (usually Christianity)/spirituality is endangered or confronted is some way
• A gothic "double" is used in which a character who seems to be good is linked with another who is evil
• Characters with "aberrant psychological states"
• Events are uncanny or melodramatically violent bordering between reality and unreality

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