6 hours ago · Gothic fiction, my beloved! So difficult to define, yet so recognizable when you read it. This subgenre – or, as Wikipedia would have it, this “loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting” – originates in the eighteenth century and is characterized by a claustrophobic atmosphere, strong emotions, and a non-linear and complicated form (think: dreams, stories within stories, loads of ...
Novel by Toni Morrison
Beloved is a 1987 novel by American novelist Toni Morrison. Set in the period after the American Civil War, the novel tells the story of a dysfunctional family of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit. The narrative of Beloved derives from the life of Margaret Garner, a slave in the slave state of Kentucky who escaped and fled to the free state of Ohio in... Wikipedia
