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Mary Shelley suprises me yet again with not only the first horror novel but also the first dystopia damn
by Lacerda69 4y ago
Mary Shelley suprises me yet again with not only the first horror novel but also the first dystopia damn
- dang 4y agoWilliam Godwin (Mary Shelley's father) wrote a novel called Caleb Williams which I remember as a very early dystopian thriller - not in the alternate-world sense, but in the "innocent man hounded by sinister agents" style a la Enemy of the State (or North by Northwest for that matter) and tons of other modern things. Pretty cool to have one foot in the 18th century and the other a good 200 years into the future.
- fogus 4y agoIt's unclear if Walpole's Castle of Otranto is the first horror, but in any case it predates Frankenstein by 53 years.