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26
Oct
2009
What’s the pleasure in terror?

13 days ago by puesoccurrences

By Christina Morin. With Halloween fast approaching, I’ve been thinking a lot about why exactly people enjoy getting a fright. Personally, I’ve never been a fan of horror flicks – the thought of sitting in a darkened cinema just knowing that something gross and gruesome, at some unknowable but inevi ...

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09
Oct
2009
Her Fearful Symmetry: Erin’s Pick of the Day

29 days ago by hooray4books

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger (adult book) Adult readers, take heart. It’s not always books for children here at Hooray For Books! My pick of the day today is the newest novel by Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife. The two books aren’t related, except in that they ar ...

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23
Sep
2009
LOST SOULS by Poppy Z. Brite

45 days ago by Wolfgang Nibori

When I first started reading horror novels, admittedly late in life, I’d become quite the fan of Stephen King. As far as I knew at that time, King was the penultimate writer of the horror genre. Now, I’m not looking to provoke a debate over who the world’s finest horror author is,... [Click on the t ...

Perpetual Prose - perpetualprose.com · Rank: 110,775 · 4 references

08
Sep
2009
per chi ha ama Stephenie Meyer, Victoria Frances

61 days ago by atlantidelibri

Il gotico, il romantico, un pizzico di sensualità, tavole evocative quanto suggestive: questo è il segreto del successo delle opere di Victoria Frances, giunto assai prima di quello di Stephenie Meyer, e che merita la giusta attenzione tra le fans di quest’ultima. Victoria Frances,Favole (e altri te ...

libri, consigli e pensieri - buoneletture.wordpress.com · 17 references

17
Aug
2009
Dorian Grey Movie Trailer

82 days ago by christin

We all know the story of Dorian Gray from the Gothic novel by Oscar Wilde published in the late 1800’s of a young beautiful man who realizes one day he’ll age and his beauty will fade sold his soul so that his self portrait painted by artist Basil Hallward would age rather than himself. It comes tru ...

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05
Aug
2009
Coraline (2009)

94 days ago by armin

Based on the successful Gothic-novel by Neil Gaiman, Coralina is a film in stop-motion chronicles that the adventures of a girl with negligent parents, in a large pink villa. While the study and observation of the characteristics of the corners and places that surround it, known Wybie Lovato, provid ...

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30
Jul
2009
Castle of Otranto

100 days ago by JTM

Today we are publishing The Castle of Otranto. It was the first gothic novel EVER written. That we know of. Without it, how would we have Frankenstein, Dracula, Northanger Abbey, or some of the more stylized Holmes stories? So check it out!

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Rebecca

100 days ago by annotationnation

book by Daphne du Maurier annotation by Tina Rubin Everything about this Gothic novel seems to be perfect: plot, setting, characterization, themes, buildup of suspense, irony, symbolism, language, a cliff-hanger to the very last scene. And happily, much of what I learned from it can be applied to my ...

Annotation Nation - annotationnation.wordpress.com · 1 reference

09
Jul
2009
Ann Radcliffe ~ July 9, 1764

122 days ago by Janeite Deb

Today is the birthday of Ann (Ward) Radcliffe, author of various Gothic romances, one of the authors cited and parodied in Austen’s Northanger Abbey - most known for The Mysteries of Udolpho [1794] and The Romance of the Forest [1791], where “terrified heroines hold on to their religion and reason; ...

Bygone Books Blog - bygonebooks.wordpress.com · 3 references

26
Jun
2009
Book review: The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

135 days ago by Ms. SP

The Castle of Otranto is significant for being known as the first ever Gothic novel. I am someone who stays away from horror movies and scary stories of all kinds. I do not like bumps in the night. But I didn’t have anything to fear from this novel at all. The spectural elements are mainly portents ...

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