All things Victorian Gothic.
PhD on Gothic lit & journalism @ University of Glasgow / University of Stirling.
Co-host of Wicked Readings postrgad+ fantasy horror reading group.
Run by Georgina Gale (she/her)
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31) THE GHOST CLUB: AN UNFORTUNATE EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF NO.5010, John Kendrick Bangs (1894)
"I looked at him a minute, and then I said, 'But, Hawley, I thought you were dead.'
'I am,' he answered. 'But why should a little thing like that stand between friends?'" #GothicAdvent
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30) THE GIANT WISTARIA, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1891)
"He strode heavily across the porch, till the loose planks creaked...his brows fiercely knit above his iron mouth. Overhead the shadows flickered mockingly across a white face among the leaves, with eyes of fire"#GothicAdvent
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29) WARNED BY THE WIRE, Louis Glass (1895)
"Could it be possible be that I was asleep? I got up and walked over...Everything was too clear to me and the ominous click typed out the following sentence: Spike-driver Catton will be killed in the new cut tomorrow" #GothicAdvent
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28) YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1835)
The cry of grief, rage, and terror, was yet piercing the night…There was a scream, drowned immediately in a louder murmur of voices, fading into far-off laughter, as the dark cloud swept away" #GothicAdvent
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27) THE BLIZZARD, Luke Sharp (1888)
"An astonishing sight met his eyes...A skeleton sat on a stump looking at him, if the eyeless sockets can be said to look, and on the fallen log beside the stump sat a second skeleton with its skull resting in its bony hands" #GothicAdvent
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26) AN UNSCIENTIFIC STORY, Louise J Strong (1903)
"The creature - it was plainly a living creature - had grown, and taken shape, even in those few moments. It lived! It breathed! It moved! And his the power that had given it life!" #GothicAdvent
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25) A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Charles Dickens (1843)
"The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went. Every one of them wore chains like Marley’s Ghost; some...were linked together; none were free." #GothicAdvent
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24) THE LADY’S WALK, Margaret Oliphant “I stood and listened with a something of excited feeling which I could not control: the sound of this third person, whose steps were not to be mistaken though she was unseen, made my heart beat” #GothicAdvent
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23) LA VILLE VAMPIRE, Paul Féval (1874)
"The young girl was on her knees on the back of her horse. She threw away her garland, threw away her veils…she made a touching sight. Suddenly, the spider trapped her in its web…There was a sound of grinding bones." #GothicAdvent
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22) THE HIGHER LIFE, Mary E Braddon (1907)
"out of the darkness rushed the demon pack, the spectral hounds that hunt the souls of sinful men - the evil spirits of the air, implacable, fierce, inexorable tormentors, who chase unhallowed souls that have escaped" #GothicAdvent
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