Gothic (horror) novel

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• Trilby (novel) — Trilby (1894) is a gothic horror novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin de siècle period after Bram Stoker s Dracula . Trilby is set in the 1850s in an idyllic… …   Wikipedia

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