Gothic Horror

[quillnqueer]

We Have Always Lived In The Castle - International Book Covers

[correctopinionhaver]

so many mental health issues these days are due to the fact that we no longer put the gargoyles on buildings that used to scare away the evil spirits that cause mental illness

[sykes]

Jonathan Harker and Count Dracula have very realistic employee-customer interactions; every response from Jonathan is like this

[thesoldiersminute]

The Wicker Man 1973 | Robin Hardy

[cerebralpaulzie]

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

La strega in amore | 1966 | aka The Witch in Love

[devilsskettle]

the haunting of hill house tv series: love is stronger than trauma! family is the most important thing, and together, we can overcome the literal and metaphorical ghosts of our past!

the haunting of hill house book:

[falsenote]

La Strega in Amore (1966)

[cronennerd]

The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974), sets and decor

[horrorme]

Barbara Steele in An Angel for Satan (1966)

[wonderful-strange]

The Witchcraft of Salem Village by Shirley Jackson. Popular Libary, 1976.

Greystoke Trading Company.

[redacted-metallum]

what's wrong with derleth? Explain it to me like Idk anything, because I was under the impression he was the primary reason lovecraft's work survived as long as it did after his death

Sort of yes and sort of no.

Lovecraft wanted his estate to go to his friend, a young gay man and author named Robert Barlow, but August Derleth was an older cishet white man in the 30s and was like "lol no" and was a cunt about it and also wrecked Barlow's reputation.

It's true that Derleth founded Arkham House in order to publish Lovecraft's work, and ended up essentially preserving generations of weird fiction and pulps that would've otherwise been lost to time more or less single handedly, but he also meddled with Lovecraft's work and made edits that Sucked and his work wasn't restored until ST Joshi did the legwork in like the 90s for it.

He also did a LOT of anti-Native racism. They're all pretty guilty of it, but Derleth's is particularly egregious with the Tcho-Tcho (who should be thrown out completely) and Ithaqua (who needs a lot of work to be decoupled from the W*/ice cannibal from Algonquin/Aashinabe spirituality but is still imo salvageable)

He also, and this is more personal, just flat out sucked at writing.

[starrywisdomsect]

Kill, Baby, Kill  (1966)

[blackramhall]

IL TELEFONO I tre volti della paura - Black Sabbath (Mario Bava 1963)

[charnel-grounds]

The Skull (1965)

[ladamarossa]

Some of my favorite Giallo final girls (the ones that didn’t end up secretly being the killer or dying at the end of their film)

Deborah (Carroll Baker) - The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)

Julie Wardh (Edwige Fenech) - The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1970)

Cleo DuPont (Anita Strindberg) - The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail (1971)

Julie/Mary Harrison (Carroll Baker) - The Devil with Seven Faces (1971)

Greta Franklin (Barbara Bouchet) - Amuck! (1971)

Giulia Torresi (Uschi Glas) - Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972)

Jane Harrison (Edwige Fenech) - All the Colors of the Dark (1972)

Eleanor Lorraine (Anne Heywood) - The Killer is on the Telephone (1972)

Valentina (Nieves Navarro) - Death Walks at Midnight (1972)

Kitty Wildenbrück (Barbara Bouchet) - The Red Queen Kills 7 Times (1972)

Jennifer Lansbury (Edwige Fenech) - The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972)

Jane (Suzy Kendall) - Torso (1973)

Sara Grimaldi (Senta Berger) - Puzzle (1974)

Simona Sanna (Mimsy Farmer) - Autopsy (1975)

Virginia Ducci (Jennifer O’Neill) - The Psychic (1977)

[charnel-grounds]

Barbara Parkins in Asylum (1972).