7. Prospective Reading List

GOTHIC FICTION SEMESTER
[extended texts]
Dracula (Stoker)
Frankenstein (Shelley)

[supplemental texts]
“Usher II” (Bradbury)
“The Veldt” (Bradbury)
“Shattered Like a Glass Goblin” (Ellison)
“A Rose for Emily” (Faulkner)
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (Irving)
“The Shadow Over Innsmouth” (Lovecraft)
“The Tartarus of Maids” (Melville)
“The Fall of the House of Usher” (Poe)
“The Masque of the Red Death” (Poe)
“The Cask of Amontillado” (Poe)
The Castle of Otranto (Walpole)

DYSTOPIAN FICTION SEMESTER
[extended texts]
1984 (Orwell)
Brave New World (Huxley)
Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury)

[supplemental texts]
“2011: A Brave New Dystopia” (Hedges)
“How to Hack a Car” (Motherboard)
Gattaca (Niccol)
Blade Runner (Scott)
“The Obsolete Man” (The Twilight Zone)
“Days of Future Past” (X-Men)
Back to the Future II (Zemeckis)

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