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Darkly Is About the Gothic Sensation
Guillermo del Toro also uses ghosts in his 2001 film The Devil's Backbone. Alongside vampires, ghosts are the most common supernatural character that you'll find in a gothic story. Lila Taylor's book Darkly looks at why the gothic sensibility resonates so much in American culture where we don't have an ancient castles and aristocratic families.