1
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Terror
A
Fear from uncertainty
2
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Horror
A
Physical shock
3
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‘Abject’
A
Feminist critic Kristeva
The in-between that creates horror e.g corpse and wounds
4
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Sublime
A
Overwhelmed
5
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Sublime critic
A
Blair ‘expansion of the mind’
6
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The uncanny
A
In Freudian terms = foreign or strange but familiar
7
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Taboos
A
Crimes and broken rules
8
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Otherness
A
Different and threatening
9
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Obscurity
A
Things not seen or fully understood
10
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The revenant
A
Something that comes back from the past
11
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Doppleganger
A
Alter ego/ mirror image e.g. Dr jekyll and mr hyde
12
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The liminal
A
Being on a boundary
Gothic REVISION
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