Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination

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Friday, 3 October 2014 - Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Come along to the British Library and be among the first to discover the UK’s biggest ever Gothic exhibition.
 
Two hundred rare objects trace the history of the Gothic movement over 250 years, exploring our fascination with the mysterious and the macabre.
 
From Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker to Stanley Kubrick and  Alexander McQueen, via posters, books, films and even a vampire-slaying kit, experience the dark shadow that the Gothic imagination has cast across our daily lives.

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