“You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.”
You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word […]
Book 7 is technically an anthology called "Vampires: The Original Stories" and includes Polidori's "Vampyre", "Carmilla", and even an Arthur Conan Doyle.
Edit: finished 10th March.
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Uncle Silas, based on Sheridan le Fanu's novel, a 1968 episode of the UK Mystery and Imagination anthology TV series. Total gothic overload plus extraordinary delirious excessiveness. One of the most outrageous pieces of TV you will ever see.
My review: https://cult-tv-lounge.blogspot.com/2015/09/mystery-and-imagination-uncle-silas-1968.html
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“But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.”
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla 🦇 🎩 🕯️
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