The horror genre has been around for years! The gothic style started mainly in the 19th century when Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1818, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in 1886 and Bram Stoker wrote Dracula in 1897. These 3 novels are what defined these 3 authors' careers. The first horror film ever made, Nosferatu in 1922 was based on the Vampire idea from Bram Stoker's Dracula. The gothic genre is the first main genre of horror, completely different to what horror is to us in the modern day.
A 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Bela Lugosi's 1931 adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Robert Louis Stevenson's career defining novel "The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886)
Here is the full film of the 1922 horror film "Nosferatu" there is no speech as in 1922 cameras could not pick up character speech. Nosferatu is the first ever horror film in known existence.
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