Amber sat on the mattress just outside her tent and, for the fifteenth dawn, watched the death of the sky…
Category: Romance
The fiction of the Romantic Era.
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“[Romanticism] emphasized intense emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as apprehension, horror and terror, and awe—especially that experienced in confronting the new aesthetic categories of the sublimity and beauty of nature. It elevated folk art and ancient custom to something noble, but also spontaneity as a desirable characteristic…Romanticism revived medievalism and elements of art and narrative perceived as authentically medieval in an attempt to escape population growth, early urban sprawl, and industrialism.” (Wikipedia).
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The Gothic Romance is the fountainhead of supernatural horror.
