Literary genres

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 258. Chapters: Science fiction, Romanticism, Detective fiction, Picaresque novel, Blog, Epistolary novel, Gothic fiction, Bildungsroman, Letter game, Tragedy, Horror fiction, Wuxia, Legend, Crime fiction, Grimoire, Political fiction, Non-fiction, Pastiche, Dime novel, Historical fiction, Formula fiction, Magic realism, Autobiographical novel, Absurdist fiction, Roman à clef, Prose poetry, Romance novel, Werewolf fiction, Erotic literature, Postmodern literature, Fantastique, Superhero fiction, Zombie apocalypse, Lovecraftian horror, Thriller, New Italian Epic, Literary nonsense, Grotesque, Bizarro fiction, Historical romance, War novel, School story, Politics in fiction, List of 20th-century writers, Web fiction, Pastoral, Fantasy, War poet, Disaster books, Modernist literature, Psychological thriller, Science fantasy, Popular science, Tall tale, Experimental literature, Verse novel, Gaucho literature, Teaching stories, Mirrors for princes, Creative nonfiction, Urban Gothic, Self-help book, Guide book, Southern Gothic, Menippean satire, Sentimentalism, Fix-up, Closet screenplay, Misery lit, Monster literature, Slice of life story, Sentimental novel, Robinsonade, Transgressive fiction, Paranoid fiction, Short story cycle, Fantasy literature, American Literary Regionalism, Free writing, Captivity narrative, Mashup, Jacobin novel, Class S, Docudrama, Chick lit, Electronic literature, Non-fiction novel, Airport novel, Swashbuckler, Tart Noir, Gothic Blue Books, Newgate novel, Tasmanian Gothic, Nivola, True crime, Campus novel, Fantastic, Macabre, Scar literature, Penny dreadful, Addventure, Novel of manners, Maximalism, Literary genre, Social novel, Cautionary tale, 55 Fiction, Young Adult Romance Literature, Parnassianism, List of literary genres, Whore dialogues, Adventure novel, Ruritanian romance, Percy Stuart, Ergodic literature, Táin Bó, Men's adventure, Closet drama, Philosophical fiction, Carnivalesque, List of fictional works using settings created by other artists, Mundane science fiction, Outdoor literature, Literary realism, Mémoire, Regency novel, Belles-lettres, Emblem book, Punk literature, Imaginary voyage, Southern Ontario Gothic, Nouveau roman, Dark romanticism, Performative writing, Psychological novel, Elements of American Gothic, Notebook, Hollywood novel, Rhymed prose, Suburban Gothic, Champu, Poetic journal, Procedural, Traditional stories, Gaweda, Lab lit, Slipstream, Grunge Lit, Eulogy, Sensation novel, Lady Drury's Closet, Menippeah, Paradoxography, Sea story, Patericon, Supernatural fiction, Fashionable novel, Oracular literature, Popular history, Mediterranean noir, Metahistorical romance, Pourquoi story, Semidocumentary, Weird menace, Courtesy book, Histoires tragiques, Domestic tragedy, Political thriller, Comic novel, Entremés, Biji, Industrial novel, Plantation tradition, Collage novel, Libertine novel, John Kling, Modern novel, Problem fiction, Scandinavian noir, Romanzo d' appendice, Conduct book, Prosimetrum, Pragatisheela, Kmart realism, Grotesquerie, Consuetudinary, Mennipea, Prehistoric fiction, Juvenilia, Varsity novel, Sports novel. Excerpt: Gothic fiction, sometimes referred to as Gothic horror, is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. As a genre, it is generally believed to have been invented by the English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto. The effect of Gothic fiction feeds on a pleasing sort of terror, an ...