3 days ago by Jodi

61. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole This month's Bibliogoths selection. Last read in the early 90s. I can't believe that I missed that it's structured very like a Shakespeare play. And that I'd forgotten that it's actually very funny. For a book that had several of us laughing our asses off ...

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26 days ago by Regina Scott

Thanks so much for your comments about Gothic novels! From Mysteries of Udolpho to Northanger Abbey, Frankenstein to Dracula, the nineteenth century was blessed with some awe-inspiring novels of terror, adventure, and romance. And they inspired a whole slew of current novels too! It’s no secret that ...

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30 days ago by Marissa Doyle

And then there are the books that giggle in the night. Jane Austen must have enjoyed a good laugh. How else could she have created Mr. and Mrs. Bennett, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Marianne from Sense and Sensibility, and today's topic, Northanger Abbey? Much of the divine Jane's early work was outrig ...

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40 days ago by Regina Scott

One of the most popular of the Gothic writers, long after her death, was Ann Radcliffe. Originally published in 1794, her Mysteries of Udolpho continued to be a bestseller, particularly among young ladies, throughout the nineteenth century in both England and America. Born Ann Ward in 1766, she marr ...

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42 days ago by Marissa Doyle

We're well into October now, which means chrysanthemums and pumpkins adorning yards and doorsteps... and not a few white muslin ghosts hanging from trees and lamp-posts and giant spiders, fake tombstones, and other scary appurtenances scattered about yards as Halloween approaches. What is it about H ...

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65 days ago by Keira

Gothic romance is a genre you can’t find all too easily today. It was a popular genre a few decades ago and lovers of this romance sub-genre will have to troll secondhand bookstores to find titles. Classics of this genre are novels such as Wuthering Heights and Scarlet Letter. Well known authors of ...

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71 days ago by James Callan

TODAY’S QUESTION Current events: Now that it’s finished reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, online book club Infinite Summer has decided to read what classic Gothic novel between Oct. 1 and Halloween? PREVIOUSLY That question, again: What did Schiphol International Airport in Amsterdam add ...

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86 days ago by Keira

Come join me for a fun interview with Amanda Grange, author of Mr. Darcy, Vampyre! Keira: Mr. Darcy, Vampyre has a very Gothic romance feel to it. What inspired you to write it that way as opposed to straight paranormal? Do you feel that Gothic romance and paranormal are similar beasts? Amanda: I lo ...

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119 days ago by Tracy V. Wilson

Actors Richard Dreyfuss (L) and Robert Shaw need a bigger boat. (Photo by Universal Pictures/Courtesy of Getty Images) When I was in college, I took a class on the gothic novel. We started with what’s generally recognized as the first gothic novel, Horace Walpole’s “The Castle of Otranto,” and we wo ...

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122 days ago by lovecraf

Weird fiction has a long history, but I find a lot of my younger friends aren’t aware of it. That holds true for a lot of things, and is probably more about my aging than any failing of my friends. I remember a good pal who was so blown away when he found out about the original Doom Patrol, misfit h ...

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