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Devendra Varma

Devendra Prasad Varma (17 October 1923 - 24 October 1994) was an Indian Canadian literary scholar and an expert on Gothic fiction. He was particularly well known for The Gothic Flame: being a history of the Gothic Novel in England and The Evergreen Tree of Diabolical Knowledge, and also for making available hundreds of Gothic tales.

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Devendra Prasad Varma (17 October 1923 - 24 October 1994) was an Indian Canadian literary scholar and an expert on Gothic fiction. He was particularly well known for The Gothic Flame: being a history of the Gothic Novel in England and The Evergreen Tree of Diabolical Knowledge, and also for making available hundreds of Gothic tales.

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