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museums like the holy grail and black plague
They're both connected because after the Holocaust ended, zionism began, which was a movement for Jewish people to find a place to build around their religion and be protected from any more events.
I think it either could be compass rose or legend
Working for the election of sympathetic public officials
The Gothic element there is the horror that ensues after he hears the tapping. The character is alone during a spooky, dreary night, nobody found anywhere, and suddenly there is a mysterious tapping by someone, and it turns out that no-one tapped, which means either madness or ghosts, that are either way both elements of Gothic writing.