Tag: Gothic
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THE WHISPERING MUSE by Laura Purcell (BOOK REVIEW)
“You see, now, the beauty of tragedy? It has so many faces. Not all doom and gloom but nobility, honour and a hundred other qualities. You ... -
CHILDREN OF PARADISE by Camilla Grudova (BOOK REVIEW)
“Living in the past in the same place I have to be in the present, my mind often feels like a double exposed photograph, and the ... -
THE LAST TALE OF THE FLOWER BRIDE by Roshani Chokshi (BOOK REVIEW)
“All Marriages possess their own tongue. It is a lexicon discovered in that space between clipped sentences. Its poetry can be heard in the rustle of ... -
ANIMALS AT NIGHT by Naomi Booth (BOOK REVIEW)
“They’re getting drunk and reminiscing about their old lives, about gigs and parties and festivals on faraway beaches where they’d danced and played like animals at ... -
ORDINARY MONSTERS by J. M. Miro (BOOK REVIEW)
“What else is loss? What is death? Who doesn’t believe in things they can’t explain? God and the angels, gravity and electricity, death and the mystery ... -
SORROWLAND by Rivers Solomon (BOOK REVIEW)
“Sometimes it seemed like there was a creature inside her, lurking, trying to bust through her bones, a demented birth. Mam would be a pile of ... -
LUCKENBOOTH by Jenni Fagan (BOOK REVIEW)
A Gothic Walk on the Wild Side In the eighteenth century, Edinburgh was home to the Scottish Enlightenment – the rule of reason, humanism, progress – ... -
FANTASTIC TALES by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, translated by Lawrence Venuti (BOOK REVIEW)
“We cannot fail to recognize that in the spiritual world as in its physical counterpart, everything that happens, happens and changes through certain laws of influence ... -
The Girl, the House and the Secrets: Five Gothic Novels and A Movie – GUEST POST by Jeanette Ng
So, what is with the girl and the old house? During the 19th Century, Romanticism saw the past as a source of inspiration. Gazing upon ruins ... -
Medusa’s Web by Tim Powers
“The past,” she repeated, “it is always out there, isn’t it? I hate now. I hate that whenever you look at a clock, it shows a different ...
