Gothic Tuesday List THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER REBECCA JANE EYRE THE WOMAN IN WHITE GREYGALLOWS THE MISTRESS OF MELLYN HOUSES OF STONE TRELAWNY MERLIN’S KEEP NINE COACHES WAITING THE TURN OF THE SCREW And there’s the Sleuth Thursday list too… NANCY DREW THE WOMAN IN WHITE KATE DANIELS ROBIN SCHERBATSKY MISS MARPLE […]
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House of Ladies Intrepid, In Danger & Into Good Books
Apologies for a Gothic Tuesday at this late hour, ma petite belles! I am in France, and today I was trapped in a manor, the power off, our electric gates not working, and my friends trying to scale the walls. Gothic problems, man. Gothic problems. Don’t worry, I kept a cool head. SARAH: I know […]
MAY DAY, MAY DAY. THE KIDS ARE HELLA NOT ALL RIGHT.
Sensible child-rearing resulting in well-adjusted children who are 100 % mentally balanced, in no way paranoid, and totally not in danger of their lives. That is exactly the opposite of what you get with Gothic novels, where if you are under eighteen everyone you know is like ‘So you’re possessed by ghosts/being stalked/the centre of […]
Nine Coaches Waiting, Or Linda Does France
Every Gothic novel has someone tall, dark, devastatingly good-looking and dangerous to know… on account of they hate everyone they know. Meet Unspoken’s Angela. Now let us speak of Nine Coaches Waiting, and its unusual Gothic hero. LINDA: I have always dreamed of going back to my childhood home of France! LINDA: Now that I […]
SLIDING UNDER THE WIRE WITH MY… GOTHIC TUESDAY!
I was at the Sirens convention in Denver last year, sitting on a sofa and talking about my all-Gothic-novels-all-the-time project. Rachel Manija Brown spoke up, with a conspiratorial smile on her face. RACHEL: Have you read anything by Isabelle Holland? SARAH: Oh yes. Yes I have had that experience. Yes. I am going to tell […]
It Takes A Village
FRIEND: I know you’re doing your all-Gothic all-the-time readings. SARAH: Friend, that is true. Let me tell you a funny story about live burial. FRIEND: … No, you’re OK. FRIEND: So you like those Amelia Peabody novels by that author Elizabeth Peters, well that lady wrote a ton of Gothic fiction under the name Barbara […]