Horror fiction Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson's "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886), Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1890), H. G. Wells' "The Invisible Man" (1897), and Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (1897). Each of these novels and novellas created an enduring icon of horror seen in modern re-imaginings on the stage and screen. The proliferation of cheap periodicals, as early as the turn of the century, led to a boom in horror writing. For example, Gaston Leroux serialized his "Le Fantôme de l'Opéra" before it was a novel in 1910. One writer who specialized in horror fiction for
1886 Dutch Reformed Church split 1886 Dutch Reformed Church split The 1886 Dutch Reformed Church split, also known as Doleantie (from Latin "dolere", 'to feel sorrow') was the name of a prominent schism in the Dutch Reformed Church ("Nederlands Hervormde Kerk") which took place in 1886 and was led by the renowned minister Abraham Kuyper. The Doleantie was not the first schism in the Dutch Reformed Church. In 1834 another schism, the Secession of 1834 "(Afscheiding van 1834)", had led to the formation of the Christian Reformed Church in the Netherlands "(Christelijke Gereformeerde Kerk in Nederland)". In 1885 the first moves towards schism were made