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*Before horror films were written or spoken narratives, fables handed down from generations and theatrical presentations.
* "Origins of the horror story may be traced to the narrative or in the Babylonian "Epic of Gilgamesh" and horror's "Odysey" monsters with a strong otherworldly flavour in which man is but a tool or pawn of the gods".
This quote demonstrates how there were many different sources from back in the day to help us understand more about the horror genre now.
*Dante's Divine Comedy (1310) has been a template for a horrific scenes of eternal damnation. This can be traced from the middle ages more specifically in French folk tales.
*Marlowe's the Tragical History of Dr. Faustus (1590) as well as Johann Wolfgang Von Gloothe's two part poem Faust (1808 & 1833) proved fertile ground for film makers from the late 19th century.
*Classics such as Frankenstein, Dracula and Sweeney Todd were the books which got horror to where it is today, such as drama and musical theatre performances.
* "Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto" (1794) is generally considered the 1st horror novel, and the work of Gothicist Ann Radcliffe, who most successfully foray into the genre was undoubtedly "The Mysteries of Volopho" (1974) was also popular with audiences".
This quote is good to know, as we need to know where origins came from and which books came out when.
* "Most famous of all these early works is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or the modern "Prometheus" (1818) which was created as the result of a bet of sorts by Lord Byron, who, ensconced in his summer hous on Lake Geneve in 1816 with Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Polidori, Mary Goodwin and Claire Clairmont in attendance, proposed that he and his friends should try their hand at writing ghost stories pass the time".
"The weather was cold and rainy, and created the proper mood for such an enterprise".
This quote sets the mood and allows us to think about what these authors were like and how they started these books.
*Others got out of the situation apart from Mary Godwin who was determined. It was published in 1818, was hugely popular and it has served the basis for many films, nationalities, "From the dawn of cinema to the present".
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