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In 1818, Mary Shelly released her modern Prometheus to the world, John Polidori was about to introduce us to our first gentleman vampire, and Frederick Douglas was born into slavery. The narratives that inform our language of terror were beginning to take shape while the seeds of a home-grown American gothic were starting to take root.
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