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According to Nicole Bown, the author of “Fairies in nineteenth-century art and literature” ghosts and vampires, spirits of the dead, angles as well as Gods of other cultures were extremely interesting for 19th century society, who was deeply fascinated about them. It was quite unsurprising, people have turned to the persistence of the dead and occulted methods of communicating with them, considering it was a time, when religion was losing it power and was a subject of doubt among people. Nevertheless, that time society was aware of its modernity; lure of the past was not gone and was heavily felt by numerous people. In addition, huge influence of the empire as well as its diversity of faith and gods, made many to search for enlightenment far beyond Christian traditions. (Bown, 2001)
All of these factors affected the interest in supernatural that meant interest in ghosts, vampires, werewolves, extraordinary human abilities, and other fantasy creatures. Supernatural cannot be explained by rational or scientific means. In this chapter supernatural is analyzed as a part of the Gothic novel connecting it with possibly the most popular supernatural beings of modern day - Vampires that have inspired more books and films than all other mythical creatures together.
Supernatural literature uses persistent themes, images, and symbols to picture the human condition. Supernatural appears throughout literature but it is best-known in the literary genre called “Gothic,” which developed in the late eighteenth-century with the publication of Horace Walpole's novel “The Castle of Otranto” (1765), which Walpole called a “Gothic story”. Gothic genre deals with stories of the irrational aspects of human existence. Gothic or supernatural features ap...

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...s considered to be of supernatural origin, such as ghosts;

Supernatural is something everybody wants to have in their everyday routine even if they are skeptically disposed about it. Supernatural is something that fascinates, excites and makes people lives colorful. One of the genre were supernatural features are most common is Gothic novel and vampire stories. Vampire lives are full of supernatural events and characteristics. They themselves are supernatural.
By reading vampire fiction, people recklessly drop into the abyss of darkness and magic that cannot be explained and understood in natural or scientific way. This supernatural atmosphere attracts the readers and makes them to wish to see it by their own eyes even if it frightens. Supernatural is something that is missing in people`s everyday life and people desperately try to get it at least from the books.

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