The Maze by Maurice Sandoz

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The Maze by Maurice Sandoz is a Gothic horror novella about a man drawn to a mysterious ancestral castle harboring a bizarre and terrifying secret.

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instanceOf Gothic horror work
novella
atmosphere claustrophobic
macabre
author Maurice Sandoz NERFINISHED
centralLocation ancestral castle
conflictType psychological horror
containsElement ambiguous reality
supernatural suggestion
countryOfOrigin Switzerland
genre Gothic fiction
horror fiction
hasArtisticCollaborationWith Salvador Dalí NERFINISHED
hasIllustrationsBy Salvador Dalí NERFINISHED
hasNotableElement bizarre secret in castle
terrifying revelation
hasWorkType illustrated book
illustrationStyle surrealist
language English
length novella-length
literaryCategory weird fiction
literaryPeriod 20th-century literature
mainCharacterRole male protagonist
medium prose
motif ancestral legacy
castle
labyrinth
narrativeFocus mysterious family estate
narrativePerspective first-person narration
narrativeStructure gradual revelation of mystery
originalAuthorNationality Swiss
settingType remote countryside
targetAudience adult readers
theme family secrets
fear of the unknown
hereditary curse
isolation
madness

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