Magical Realism In Joyce Carol Oates's Short Story 'Where Is Here'

In Joyce Carol Oates’ short story “Where is Here” is a piece of Gothic Literature which shows the similarities between the two genres “Gothic Literature” and “Magical Realism”. Both Gothic Literature and Magical Realism both have normal settings with either a supernatural as well as a mystery. An example of this in the short story “Where is Here”, “For years they had lived without incident in their house in a quiet residential neighborhood when, on one November evening at dusk, the doorbell rang, and the father went to answer it” (69). In “Where is Here” the setting is an ordinary quiet home without disturbance for as long as they had taken up residence in the new home. “The lights were flickering as if on the brink of going out; the patterned