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writer inspiration and snippets main: @lesbianniehuaisang

[thecollectibles]

Art by Andrej Rempel

[flowerytale]

Crimson Peak, co-written and directed by Guillermo del Toro (2015)

[bongjoonhoe]

The Handmaiden (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook

The Favourite (2018) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) dir. Celine Sciamma

Ammonite (2020) dir. Francis Lee

[boogerwookiesugarcookie]

[gorgonapologist]

For Gothic Heroines, Haunted Houses Are Always Too Big, Jane Healey

[echymosis]

“‘I have found my mate,’ she murmured. ‘It is the moor. I am nature’s bride.‘”

— Virginia Woolf, Orlando

[flowerytale]

Anne Sexton, from A Self-portrait in Letters

[goreprofonde]

“The story of Bluebeard is central to gothic romance, haunting the halls of all those spooky houses that loom large in the popular imagination. Bluebeard reappears, for example, in Jane Eyre, which makes specific reference to the tale in creating its aura of eerie domestic wrongness: “I, by drift of groping, found the outlet from the attic, and proceeded to descend the narrow garret staircase,” Charlotte Bronte wrote in Jane’s voice. “I lingered in the long passage to which this led, separating the front and back rooms of the third storey: narrow, low, and dim, with only one little window at the far end, and looking, with its two rows of small black doors all shut, like a corridor in some Bluebeard’s castle.” It’s no coincidence that Rochester has a secret chamber where he stores away a secret wife.”

- Kelly Faircloth, Something Is Wrong in This House: How Bluebeard Became the Definitive Fairy Tale of Our Era.

[geniuss-loci-deactivated2021052]

Emily Bronte from, Wuthering Heights

[lilja4-ever]

Crimson Peak (2015) dir. Guillermo del Toro

[olemisekunst]

Crimson Peak (2015) dir. Guillermo del Toro

[takemetoohigh]

Love? What does a crook know about love?

THE HANDMAIDEN (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook

[ubatros]

dream demon (harley cokeliss, 1988)

[yanqings]

Emily Palermo, What I Could Never Confess Without Some Bravado //  Word of Honor/山河令 , 天涯客/ Faraway Wanderers // Geoffrey Hill, Odi Barbare // Natalie Wee, from “Our Bodies and Other Fine Machines”  // Neil Hilborn, A Place Where Someone Loves You // L.M. Dorsey, She is Made of Chalk // Leila Chatti, Faulty // Katie Ward, Girl Reading // Trista Mateer

[faeriesongs]

““You said I killed you—haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe—I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad.””

— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

[paranoiac1963]

literature meme: [½] movements. ↳ gothic horror.

❝ the world is a parable-the habitation of symbols-the phantoms of spiritual things immortal shown in material shape. ❞         — j. sheridan le fanu.

[florescentlcvesickness]

[ladamarossa]

Burnt Offerings (1976)