En Verden af Fantasi

Jeg har lavet en blog på emilieblirupblog.wordpress.com, og de posts jeg har lagt ud der, vil selvfølgelig også være tilgængelige her. For det meste vil det være fantasi noveller og spinkle ideer, men også ti minutters fri skrivning og essays.

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Det Vi Gør, Gør Vi For Dyrene: Madagaskars Superstjerner

Det Vi Gør, Gør Vi For Dyrene: Madagaskars Superstjerner

Fra Dreamworks store filmsucces, Madagaskar, har de fleste verden over stiftet bekendtskab med Kattalemurerne (latin: Lemur catta), som udelukkende lever på øen. De grå primater, med den karakteristiske sortstribede hale, er placeret i gruppen for halvaber, og bliver gennemsnitligt 39-46 cm lange, med et halemål på 56-62 cm. En voksen Kattalemur vejer ca. 2,5-3,5 kg, så det ville være synd at…

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Anoreksi: En farlig Følgesvend Hej. Mit navn er anoreksi, og jeg er endnu en af dem som arbejder med mennesker. I kender mig sikkert af omtale, da jeg overfladisk er semikendt, men det er desværre de færreste som kender mit inderste væsen.

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Anoreksi – En farlig Følgesvend Hej. Mit navn er Anoreksi, og jeg er endnu en af dem som arbejder med mennesker. I kender mig sikkert af omtale, da jeg overfladisk er semikendt, men det er desværre de færreste som kender mit inderste væsen.

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Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes

Broken bodies, a broken world and at setting that sounds more miserable, than anything else, I have read so far in the Gothic genre. I know that I have not read everything, but the novel just makes me sad, from the first word. Nevertheless, I would like to be allowed to suspect that in spite of the sad mood, the book is not to be abandoned. The murder is not one I would claim to have encountered…

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Skin by Kathe Koja

Body Horror is a subgenre to regular Horror, and then a subgenre to the Gothic. The of the genre basically tells the reader all what they need to know – the genre is about the body, and an author can use the instinctively fear of disgust and the fear of death to embarrass a sense of terror. There is a naturel reason why an operation scene is terrifying in itself, but it is a mad man with a…

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Psycho by Robert Bloch

A male who is Mother, murder and pathology that I the case in Psycho. The novel is based on the American serial killer, Ed Gain, who created herself a woman suite of female skin. Does a book contain more details to make it worth reading? No. The book is exciting from the first line and one always forgets while reading. Of course, the book is also made into a movie, where one of the Horror…

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The Accursed Inhabitants of House Bly by Joyce Carol Oate

This book uses a lot of different Gothic elements, which gives strengths to the plot in context of the given genre. The sexual elements between Jessel and Quint, their “romance” is described as something grouse and shameful, but even the many hard words that drip of disgust, even from the protagonist, there is something strange fascinating throughout the wilderness, even though it is described as…

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The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

The ghost, love, madness and a little piece of Jane Eyre, there is so much these words has in comment, that it is impossible to know where to start and where to end. The Turn of the Screw has so much to offer a reader, even when it is not the most well-known work, those Henry James is a name most of the literary lovers should know, if not, pick this novel and start reading.

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The Fall of the House of Usber by Edgar Allan Poe

Some authors are just not meant to be forgotten, and Edgar Allan Poe is one of them. With his talent, that knows no boundaries, when it comes to the uncanny and horror, he has created both poems and short stories, which would indeed let the reader feel terror fright. This story is a good example of a classic Poe story, where he proves, why he is known throughout history as the Master of Horror.…

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H. P. Lovecraft’s The Whisperer in Darkness

Personally, I have a weakness for Lovecraft, and all of his works, so it is no wonder that I have read The Whisperer in Darkness, and I loved it. After being introduced to Lovecraft through my study of popular fiction, I’ve fallen in love with his language, nothing less than beautiful, which is probably a bit of a business injury, because it’s pretty purple, what contemporary readers mostly not…

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The Yellow Sign by Robert R. Chamber

All cool stories have something that the reader can learn in one way or another. From: The Yellow Sign I learned that does not only exist the fundamental boxes with contrasts like: good/evil, love/hate, nature/industry and human/animal. In all cases there are a third element, which added not just a deeper level into humanity, but to literature in general and to the Gothic especially. So maybe…

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Carmilla

All have heard about the love relationship between the vampire Edward Collin and the human Isabella Swan, from Stephanie Meyer’s saga Twilight, one of the first examples of Contemporary, Paranormal Romance, but an earlier example that would change your point of view of this kind of literature is Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmila. I’m no fan of Twilight, but Camila has a surprising element, which I do…

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Dracula

All over the world, only one vampires story is so well known and unread. Dracula by Bram Stoker, is known as the best vampire novel ever written, even when those who have not read it, only a few things about the magnificent fictional character. Dracula lives isolated from the world on his castle, only with three other vampires as company. He plans to move to London and needs some help from the…

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Man, Or Monster? Frankenstein

                         Frankenstein is written by Mary Shelley, a feministic female writer, who took the Gothic genre, and split it in to two parts. One where monsters were living creature, the undead Dracula could be an example, which does not belong in the human society, and which is hunted down by men, like wild animals, pure evil offend send from hell, or the devil himself. The other…

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Den Værste Halloween

Vi nåede hjem inden det for alvor begyndte at regne. Overtøjet kom af, og blev hængt til tørre, imens Stella hjalp Lilly af de små, gennemblødte prinsessesko. Hendes kostume hvide fjer vinger havde forhindret hende i at få overtøj på. kjolen Stalle havde syet til hende, var plettet af regnen og hendes sorte hår klæbede til ansigtet. Men under alt det våde, strålede to stolte, næsten sorte øjne.…

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It by Stephen King

It by Stephen King

To create the filling of fear, you just have to take a character you care about, and place that person in a dangers situation. In Horror and Gothic, there does not exist that fairytale security, which guaranty the survives of the protagonist; on the other hand, there are a rule about monsters in those two genres; they all ways survives. It is the symbol and the personification of basis human…

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The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The haunted house is a classic element of both Horror and Gothic, and this example awakes fillings we all know from real life. Did it happen? And if not, what was it then? The Haunting of Hill House is a cool mix between weird and unpredictable characters, science and Gothic. It is interesting to read about how architecture can influence the sans of balance and how creepy the element of the…

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