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Most but not all supernatural fiction would be taken to be Genre Fiction ; '' The Turn Of The Screw '' by Henry James is an example of a work of Literary Fiction that is also largely concerned with supernatural fiction elements, making play of the possibility that they are psychological at root, but requiring the option that they are not for effect. John Banville is a contemporary writer of supernatural literary fiction. While a great deal of supernatural fiction was written in the century up to 1950, the genre arguably died around then, except for stilted imitation and Children's Literature . The bulk of fiction dealing with the Occult had been posed as supernatural, but somewhere between Arthur Machen and a writer like Dennis Wheatley the effects had become threadbare. On this argument, Charles Williams was one of the last innovators of supernatural fiction. This dwindling of supernatural fiction can be attributed to a number of causes. The newer Genre s of Horror Fiction and Fantasy Fiction , while growing out of some of the basic propositions and Generic Convention s, were more energetic, attracted talented authors, and disposed gradually of the older arch style and fusty Edwardian isms. Surrealism was similarly against 'natural law', wholeheartedly, but postulated that the daily world we live in contains the very ' Decadent ' elements, which in the older supernatural fiction were shown as breaking through some barrier to meet us. After Sigmund Freud , and in a general realignment of thinking on Mythology post-1945 (courtesy for example of Northrop Frye , Robert Graves and numerous Art Historian s), European thought had less need to be reminded of the supernatural in the form of repressed Somethings. Some examples of the genre include:
Supernatural fiction continues to be a staple of Comic Book and Graphic Novel writing, and the basis for Film s. That is, it is only its purely prose expression that sagged, mid- Twentieth Century . REFERENCE
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