The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffe’s 1794 Gothic novel follows Emily St Aubert, orphaned and held captive by the villain Montoni in a gloomy castle in the Apennines. Its suspense and apparently supernatural terrors, each finally explained away, made it one of the most popular novels of its age.
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Alon Hilu
That is exactly what my editor said to me when I told him what I wanted to do. He said, ‘But it’s always sunny there!’ But, Palestine can be gothic because it has many of the remains of old empires, like the Romans and the remains of the Jewish state 2,000 years ago. I also knew that there would be a Muslim boy in my novel whose father would be killed, and I wanted to use the plot of Hamlet.
Interview · March 2010
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