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You always seem to scratch my Victorian literature itch! Honestly, I've been slowly writing a novel currently titled Ghost Story 2024, the influence of Victorian haunted house stories being strong. Your analysis is insightful. Thank you for the work you do studying the work. I really appreciate your posts for furthering my understanding on the genre

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That's great to hear, all the best with your novel 👍🏼 Haunted houses and ghost stories were really popular in the 1800s and those stories are still influencing writers! It's good to know that these posts are helpfull too

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Lots of great stuff to unpack here!

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Thank you, it was really interesting putting it together

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Very interesting history of a great trope in Horror, the haunted house is a great setting for any horror story and arguably I'd say that Dracula (the novel) also touches on it with Dracula's castle to an extent. Though it is not a literal case in point, dunno what you think of that thought but this was a great essay!

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