European horror
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The tropes used in British gothic horror and in titles such as Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera continue to inspire contemporary fiction. As the cinema started to replace the novel as main source of fiction in the course of the 20th century, there have been a number of trends: starting in the 1920s there was German expressionism, from the sixties onwards there was Italian horror and British Hammer horror. The golden age of European horror was largely a thing of the past by the 1970s. When people stopped believing in god, they also stopped believing in the devil. So evil was no longer an external beast. Evil became a part of man himself. This explains the shift of popularity from the horror to the genres of thriller, psychological thriller and psychological horror since the 1950s.
