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The Rise of Gothic Fiction in the United States
There has been an explosion of Gothic fiction the last two years in particular. Zivir Aldon-Arais teaches at the Manchester Center for Gothic Studies. Kit Makquist is the author of Tripping Arcadia, which is a Gothic novel set in modern day. He agrees that this trend took off around 2020 but he thinks it was more than just the pandemic.