Gothic Vocab: The Uncanny

This week I want to continue my series on Gothic vocabulary. You may remember back in November, I wrote about another vocab term—the sublime—which was central to the Romantic era’s conception of the Gothic. This time I want to discuss a twentieth-century term that to this day still crops up frequently in any discussion of the Gothic or of horror more broadly: the uncanny.

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