38 days ago by engineoforacles

WITCH’S MOUNT, Level 4 Magician Incantation, Level 2 Magician Ceremony, Level 6 Magician Talisman, Level 4 Wizard, Level 4 Cleric Confers strength and flying ability on a humanoid, and compels them to serve as a mount or beast of burden This powerful work of maleficium forces a single humanoid victi ...

40 days ago by Paisley Swan Stewart

(this hat was made for me by sister Reba! One of my favorite Christmas gifts this year!) So…..what did you get for Christmas????? Greetings fans and friends! I hope this New Years Eve finds you recounting all the blessing in your life, and if your 2011 was miserable….then may I say along with you…go ...

41 days ago by engineoforacles

Characteristically Gothic Objects An Anatomical Venus An Automation A Blood-Stained Dagger A Book Of Anatomy A Cameo A Cerement, or Burial Shroud A Cloak A Coffin A Corpse Eaten By Animals A Deck Of Fortune-Telling Cards A Dissected Corpse A Dummy An Elaborate Bed An Exotic Weapon A Festival Mask Gl ...

44 days ago by engineoforacles

Typical Gothic Characters The Bandit With a Code of Honor The Beautiful Gypsy Woman The Black Widow The Boastful Man Who Challenges the Devil The Brutal Ruffian The Circus Freak The Criminal Anatomist The Cruel Relative The Deformed Henchman The Deluded Heretic The Depraved Religious Figure The Dera ...

45 days ago by engineoforacles

Typical Events in a Gothic Story An Abduction The Black Sabbath A Blizzard A Circus A Costumed Religious Procession A Deal With the Devil A Disembodied Voice is Heard A Dissection A Door Opens By Itself A Drowning An Earthquake An Empty Suit of Armor Moves An Erotic Dance An Execution An Exhumation ...

48 days ago by Sara

A Strange and Bitter Love… Emily Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights, a love story, when she was 27 years old. It is the only novel she wrote. She died three years later in 1848, in Yorkshire, English farm country which she had rarely left and which is the setting for this one tempestuous and tragic book ...

49 days ago by engineoforacles

100 Gothic Themes & Motifs 1. Addiction 2. Assassination 3. Banditry 4. Betrayal 5. Blood 6. Burial Alive 7. Cannibalism 8. Carnival 9. Cold 10. Corruption 11. Damnation 12. Darkness 13. The Dead 14. Decay 15. Deformity 16. The Demimonde 17. Disease 18. Disembodied Voices 19. Deception (lies, disgui ...

50 days ago by engineoforacles

The Gothic genre arose in the late 18 th century, reflecting the dread and excitement of a Europe transitioning from an age of superstition to an era of science. In its pure form, Gothic has characteristics of Horror, Romance, and Melodrama, while being unique from any one of those genres. Gothic di ...

56 days ago by Dianna Hardy

1. As a publisher, we'd like to try out the new Amazon KDP Select programme, which makes our books available to Amazon Prime customers for free. We're only going to try this out with one or two titles initially to see how it works, and we'd like On The Night Bus to be the first one.. As a result of ...

71 days ago by Sara

Undine was the first Mrs. Cavell, beautiful and strange, with a secret so well-guarded that only her husband and soft-spoken, monstrous brother knew it. Miranda is the second Mrs. Cavell. She learns to know her rival by a haunting that is to drive her to the limits of fear. First published 1964 by W ...