Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: Read the classic gothic horror story in a whole new light.

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Prolific horror connoisseur Eli Roth executive produces and directs this groundbreaking gothic horror series, which is set to stream thirteen episodes in 2013.

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Irish novelist Bram Stoker (born on this day in 1847) sat at this desk when he wrote the 1897 Gothic horror classic Dracula.

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The story captures the fancy of two young women vacationing at Whitby, Mina Murray and Lucy Westenra, as their summer together turns from romantic comedy to gothic horror.

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Next up, the series would move back into the Gothic horror realm, with Batman confronting the bizarre death cult the Brotherhood in Gotham, led by the villainous Monk.

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The mood is more gothic horror than kiddy tale.

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For Gothic horror and the cult of the sublime brought terror for terror's sake, and they in turn bred the theatre of cruelty and the Modernist creed that art's first duty is to shock.

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But Matthew Broderick, as her husband, a Caspar Milquetoast with a flap of hair falling over his forehead, never seems to get into the movie at all, and, somewhere in the middle, the rusty gothic-horror mechanics underneath the comedy bring everything to a grinding halt.

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