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õõvastav

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võõrastav
  • a kind of disturbing strangeness evoked in some kinds of horror story and related fiction. In Tzvetan Todorov's theory of the "fantastic", the uncanny is an effect produced by stories in which the incredible events can be explained as the products of the "narrator's" or "protagonist's" dream, hallucination, or delusion. A clear case of this is Edgar Allan Poe's tale The Tell-Tale Heart' (1843), in which the narrator is clearly suffering from paranoid delusions. In tales of the "marvellous", on the other hand, no such psychological explanation is offered, and strange events are taken to be truly supernatural. (Baldick, 2001, p. 267)
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õõvastav õõvastavad
õõvastava õõvastavate
õõvastavat õõvastavaid

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