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A list of tropes found within the Gothic Horror genre. While you don't need all of them to write a gothic horror novel, the more you have the better. Horror has some things that are universal to all genres of horror but not everything on that page is used in gothic horror.
Other genres that might employ heavy use of these tropes:
Cosmic Horror Story
Dark Fantasy
Fairy Tale
Gaslamp Fantasy
Ghost Fiction
Mystery Fiction - depends on the subgenre
Punk Punk
Gothic Punk
Myth Punk
Steampunk
Romance - depends on the subgenre
Southern Gothic
Suburban Gothic
Supernatural Fiction
Urban Fantasy
Vampire Fiction
Weird West
Werewolf Works
Note: Zombies didn't start appearing until the 1920s, but many older creatures were absorbed into the zombie mythos. So use caution when adding zombie examples. (Technically speaking, vampires are a kind of undead, so they can easily be swapped.) |
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| | Afterlife Express |
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| | Alchemy Is Magic |
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| | All Girls Want Bad Boys |
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| | All Women Are Prudes |
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| | Always Night |
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| | Anachronic Order |
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| | Ancient Tomb |
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| | Archangel Gabriel |
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| | Arranged Marriage |
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| | Based on a Dream |
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| | Be Careful What You Wish For |
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| | Creepy Cemetery |
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| | Crusty Caretaker |
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| | Damsel in Distress |
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| | Dances and Balls |
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| | Death by Childbirth |
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| | Death Glare |
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| | Demon Slaying |
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| | Demonic Possession |
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| | Dirty Old Monk |
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| | Don't Go in the Woods |
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| | Doppelgänger |
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| | Dr. Frankenstein |
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| | Dramatic Thunder |
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| | Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette |
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| | Eldritch Abomination |
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| | Eldritch Location |
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| | Empathic Environment |
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| | Evil Is Sexy |
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| | Evil Jesuit |
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| | Evil Mentor |
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| | Evil Sorcerer |
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| | Evil Tower of Ominousness |
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| | Evil Twin |
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| | Extranormal Institute |
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| | Faint in Shock |
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| | Faux Flame |
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| | Femme Fatale |
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| | Flashback |
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| | For Doom the Bell Tolls |
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| | Frankenstein's Monster |
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| | Friend to All Living Things |
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| | Gaslighting |
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| | Genteel Interbellum Setting |
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| | Ghost Ship |
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| | Ghost Story |
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| | Ghostly Chill |
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| | Gorgeous Period Dress |
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| | Grande Dame |
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| | Gray Rain of Depression |
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| | Greedy Jew |
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| | Grim Up North |
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| | Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold |
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| | Haunted Castle |
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| | Haunted Fetter |
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| | Haunted House |
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| | Haunting the Guilty |
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| | Healing Spring |
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| | Hollywood Exorcism |
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| | How We Got Here |
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| | Hunter of Monsters |
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| | I Have You Now, My Pretty |
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| | I Should Write a Book About This |
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| | If I Can't Have You… |
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| | Impoverished Patrician |
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| | In Medias Res |
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| | Inbred and Evil |
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| | Incest Is Relative |
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| | Incorruptible Pure Pureness |
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| | Incurable Cough of Death |
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| | It Was a Dark and Stormy Night |
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| | Jack the Ripoff |
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| | Lady in Red |
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| | Lesbian Vampire |
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| | Let the Past Burn |
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| | Let's Split Up, Gang! |
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| | Light Feminine and Dark Feminine |
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| | Lonely Piano Piece |
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| | Love at First Sight |
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| | Lovecraft Country |
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| | Luke, I Am Your Father |
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| | Lunacy |
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| | Mad Scientist |
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| | Mad Scientist Laboratory |
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| | Madwoman in the Attic |
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| | Magical Incantation |
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| | Malevolent Architecture |
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| | Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane |
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| | Mummy |
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| | Mundane Ghost Story |
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| | Not Quite Dead |
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| | Nun Too Holy |
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| | Occult Detective |
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| | Old, Dark House |
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| | Ominous Fog |
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| | Ominous Latin Chanting |
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| | Ominous Pipe Organ |
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| | Orphanage of Fear |
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| | Our Angels Are Different |
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| | Our Banshees Are Louder |
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| | Our Demons Are Different |
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| | Our Dragons Are Different |
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| | Our Gargoyles Rock |
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| | Our Ghosts Are Different |
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| | Our Ghouls Are Creepier |
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| | Our Gods Are Different |
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| | Our Homunculi Are Different |
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| | Our Vampires Are Different |
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| | Our Werewolves Are Different |
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| | Our Witches Are Different |
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| | Parental Marriage Veto |
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| | Pendulum of Death |
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| | Psychic Powers |
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| | "Psycho" Strings |
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| | Psychological Horror |
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| | Quieting the Unquiet Dead |
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| | Rags to Riches |
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| | Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil |
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| | Real After All |
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| | Red Sky, Take Warning |
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| | Regency England |
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| | Religion of Evil |
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| | Religious Horror |
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| | Revenant Zombie |
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| | Romanticism |
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| | Romanticism Versus Enlightenment |
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| | Ruritania |
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| | Sanity Slippage |
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| | Satan |
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| | Scare Chord |
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| | Science Is Bad |
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| | Scrapbook Story |
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| | Secret Room |
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| | Secret Underground Passage |
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| | Serial Killer |
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| | Servile Snarker |
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| | Sex Is Evil |
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| | Sexy Priest |
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| | Sinister Minister |
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| | Sins of Our Fathers |
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| | Sleep Paralysis Creature |
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| | Southern Gothic Satan |
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| | Spooky Séance |
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| | Stalker with a Crush |
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| | Strapped to an Operating Table |
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| | Succubi and Incubi |
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| | Supernatural Aid |
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| | Surprise Incest |
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| | That Man Is Dead |
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| | The Cavalier Years |
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| | The Dark Arts |
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| | The Edwardian Era |
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| | The Evil Prince |
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| | The Fair Folk |
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| | The Grim Reaper |
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| | The Grotesque |
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| | The Highwayman |
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| | The Igor |
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| | The Ingenue |
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| | The Lost Woods |
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| | The Ophelia |
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| | The Power of Love |
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| | The Sociopath |
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| | The Svengali |
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| | The Tragic Rose |
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| | The Undead |
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| | The Witch Hunter |
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| | Theatre Phantom |
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| | These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know |
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| | They Look Just Like Everyone Else! |
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| | Torches and Pitchforks |
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| | Town with a Dark Secret |
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| | Ãœberwald |
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| | Undeathly Pallor |
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| | Victorian London |
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| | Villainous Crush |
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| | Villainous Incest |
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| | Wicked Witch |
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| | Wight in a Wedding Dress |
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| | Will-o'-the-Wisp |
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| | Wolf Man |
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| | Woman Scorned |
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| | Of Corsets Sexy |
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| | Parasol of Prettiness |
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| | Scarpia Ultimatum |
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| | Scenery Porn |
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| | The Middle Ages |
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| | You All Meet in an Inn |
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