“In story after story, epicene young men, difficult children, or wild beasts set out to shake up the stifling complacency around them.”
Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916) – Saki – was born #OTD, 18 Dec, in Akyab (now Sittwe), in Myanmar. Although born in the Raj & raised in England, his parents were Scots & he considered himself to be Scottish, too. Fatema Ahmed looks at his fierce, funny, & wicked fiction
Saki’s “Tobermory”, “The Boar-Pig”, “The Lumber Room”, & many others are hilarious (as is “Esmé”, if you don’t mind all the blood…). But his horrifying winter tale “The Interlopers” is a work of #Gothic art, worthy of the tradition of James Hogg & #RobertLouisStevenson
In March 2024, I will be offering the module "Meet The Last Man" with SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity.
#MaryShelley's novel #TheLastMan is one of the most relevant books we can read right now, and I'm really looking forward to exploring it with students!
Hey, does anyone know of any good books on Hammer Studios, particularly their gothic horror movies? I’m looking for in-depth material on the studio, the films, the actors… need not be comprehensive, but I’m not interested in simply a bunch of film synopses. Other than the autobiographies of Cushing and Lee I’m not really finding anything available that looks good. #horror#Books#horrormovies#Hammerhorror#bookstodon#HorrorFam#HorrorBooks#Dracula#Frankenstein#Gothic#gothichorror
On a moody, cloudy day, Notre-Dame Cathedral, a Gothic masterpiece in Paris, built from 1163 to 1345. Iconic features, like flying buttresses & rose windows, exude a haunting beauty. Despite a 2019 fire, ongoing restoration preserves its allure as a symbol of Paris & Gothic splendor, capturing the timeless essence of the city.
I'm already counting the days until the Halloween season returns. But for now, here are three of my favorite #films set in #December. I highly recommend them! What are yours?
The Lion in Winter (1968) Perhaps my favorite #film, full stop. ("What shall we hang, the holly or each other?")
Death on the Pale Horse (1865) by Gustave Doré (French artist, lived 1832–1883). Print from illustrated edition of the Bible. Death rides into the world on a pale horse. He is the fourth knight of the apocalypse. Hell follows him.
cfp: DEVILS & JUSTIFIED SINNERS
24–25 Aug 2024
An online conference from Romancing the Gothic to mark the 200th anniversary of James Hogg’s THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS & CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER – seeking papers on
THE EBONY FRAME, Edith Nesbit (1891)
"I hope I shall never again know a moment of terror as blank & absolute…Either all the known laws of nature were nothing, or I was mad. I stood trembling…while the black velvet gown swept across the hearthrug towards me." #GothicAdvent
TO BE READ AT DUSK, Charles Dickens (1852)
"The face of a dark, remarkable-looking man, in black, w. black hair & a grey moustache…Not a face she ever saw, or at all like a face she ever saw. Doing nothing in the dream but looking at her fixedly out of darkness" #GothicAdvent
the bg loooool
living for this
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casual goth look
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this sums up the feeling of dressing alt in public lolll