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3 Episodes 2014 - 2014
Episode 1
Horace Walpole claimed the idea for The Castle of Otranto came to him in a dream. He found himself in a great stairwell where he saw a monstrous, disembodied hand in armour. Gothic was a form cloaked in mystery.from the very beginning.
Episode 2
As the modern world began to take shape, it would be the dark side of gothic, which fed on anxiety and alienation, that really came into its own
Episode 3
Gothic began with a desire to revive something which was dead - a style of medieval architecture - but it grew like graveyard ivy, more sinister at every twist and turn. By the mid-nineteenth century, gothic had spread in all directions.