... , dark, crumbling mansion in the middle of the wilderness, away from either a psychotic man as found in Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto" or a supernatural demon as found in Leroux's, "The Phantom of The Opera". She is terminally helpless and usually screaming. These woman have began their lives with a blank. The mother, if known, has disappeared and an aunt is usually the ... ...

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