Thanks to the Romantic era gothic romance came to play. The first person to play with this idea was author Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto." The setting of the book took place in a haunted castle which contains various and intensifying appearances of apparitions. The writings soon started to spread around the world to Eugene Sue from france to Edgar Allen Poe in the united states. During this movement during the romantic era many people rejected the enlightenment idea between balance and rationalism. Many of the readers anticipated the hysterical, mystical and horrified passionate adventures of the heros and heroines. The modern horror novels and women's romance novels both derived from Gothic Romance.
Info. gathered from:
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/romanticism.html
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