How to tell you're reading a gothic novel
DiscussãoGothic Literature
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2SqueakyChu
Thanks for this!
3alaudacorax
I love it! Great link. Well done 'The Grauniad'!
And I'm going straight to the mirror to practise flashing my eyes 'with coruscations of inexpressible fire'.
And I'm going straight to the mirror to practise flashing my eyes 'with coruscations of inexpressible fire'.
4SqueakyChu
By the way, I am now being tutored in The Italian if anyone wants to lurk! :)
6SqueakyChu
Well, this is a "tutored" read (and definitely not a group read) so it's really only for me and lurkers. Lurkers can, however, ask questions but just not past the past the part that I've already read.
Just a note to say that lyzard is such an excellent tutor. She has brought me much greater understanding of what gothic novels really are and has immensely increased my appreciation of them.
Just a note to say that lyzard is such an excellent tutor. She has brought me much greater understanding of what gothic novels really are and has immensely increased my appreciation of them.
8WeeTurtle
>7 frahealee: Oh, I see this! Thanks, frahealee!
1. Back to Bloodborne here "As you once did for the vacuous Rom, grant us eyes, grant us eyes. Plant eyes on our brains, to cleanse our beastly idiocy." - Micolash, Host of the Nightmare.
2. Don't forget Dr. Frankenstein was also somewhat prone to swoons (3 I think, though he tended to wake up ill, such was the emotional trauma). Equal opportunity swoons!
3. Does an entire city with grant cathedral and university count? Does the haunting need to be subtle or can it be actively trying to kill you?
I feel terrible that of all those books in that list I've only read 2. :(. Though I have seen several incarnations of The Hound of the Baskervilles, a couple of them maybe three or four times.
1. Back to Bloodborne here "As you once did for the vacuous Rom, grant us eyes, grant us eyes. Plant eyes on our brains, to cleanse our beastly idiocy." - Micolash, Host of the Nightmare.
2. Don't forget Dr. Frankenstein was also somewhat prone to swoons (3 I think, though he tended to wake up ill, such was the emotional trauma). Equal opportunity swoons!
3. Does an entire city with grant cathedral and university count? Does the haunting need to be subtle or can it be actively trying to kill you?
I feel terrible that of all those books in that list I've only read 2. :(. Though I have seen several incarnations of The Hound of the Baskervilles, a couple of them maybe three or four times.
