[2ndoppelganger]

as cultivated by odètte. a study in present absence, monstrous femininity, the haunted heroine, vampirism as a disease and the intrinsic link between horror and trauma.

[stavroginas]

Ryu Murakami, Audition

[aseaofquotes]

Cecil Castellucci, First Day on Earth

[alilaro]

i think we should utilize doppelgängers as a horror trope more often. it installs such a nauseating primal sense of dread. its like something instinctual and ancient in your body telling you something is very, very wrong.

[sonjackcarl]

[flowerytale]

Eva Green and Olivia Llewellyn as Vanessa Ives and Mina Murray, Penny Dreadful - Grand Guignol (1x08)

[hypnoticvamp]

Sissy Spacek as Carrie White, Carrie (1976)

[sailermoon]

Aeschylus, The Oresteia / Anne Carson, H of H Playbook / Hadestown, Road to Hell (Reprise) / John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van / Richard Siken, The Worm King’s Lullaby

[orpheuslament]

It's already been done

François Perrier's The Sacrifice of Iphigenia / Ptolomea, Ethel Cain

[kieran-culkins-deactivated20240]

It’s dangerous out there for you, people are killing little girls. - Not the cool ones. SHARP OBJECTS (2018)

[notations]

Sarah Michelle Gellar in ‘Prophecy Girl’ stills

[orwell]

The House of the Devil (2009)

[flowerytale]

Henry James, from The Portrait of a Lady Florence and the Machine, from Big God Mary Shelley, from Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Gillian Flynn, from Gone Girl Helen Oyeyemi, from White Is for Witching Virginia Woolf, from To the Lighthouse

Jupiter and Io, by Antonio da Correggio (c. 1530) The Others, written, directed and scored by Alejandro Amenábar (2001) Crimson Peak, directed by Guillermo del Toro (2015)

[gorgonapologist]

FEMALE BODY AS HAUNTED HOUSE

Angela Carter, The Lady of the House of Love

Sarah Smeltzer, Women, Trauma, and Haunted Houses

Emily Dickinson, One Need Not be a Chamber to be Haunted

Parul Sehgal, ‘In the Dream House’ Recounts an Abusive Relationship Using Dozens of Genres

Jacui Germain

Rachel Eve Moulton, On the Haunted Lives of Girls and Women

'Being a Woman is Inherently Uncanny’: An Interview With Carmen Maria Machado

[bluebeardsbride-archive]

“[Gothic novels] are about women who just can’t seem to get out of the house.”

— Eugenia C. DeLamotte, Perils of the Night

[annhathaway]

(Radiance, Catherynne M. Valente)

[justfilms]

4 mosche di velluto grigio - Dario Argento 1971 Tenebre - Dario Argento 1982