#clive bloom

[gothicseverance]

Shadows do not accompany the bodies that should throw them; faces have no reflection; the phases of the moon may transfer a man into a wolf or a bat.

—Gothic Histories

Art by @snottiesnot 🖤

[your-local-chaotic-cryptid]

Of course you’d know that place well, Jones

[your-local-chaotic-cryptid]

Damn mommy issues

[gothicseverance]

The gothic was (…) a mechanism for describing not only the workings of the mind, but also the mind in relationship with the supernatural, the universal and the divine.

—Gothic Histories

[gothicseverance]

Creatures who should be ‘dead’ are ‘alive.’

—Gothic Histories

[gothicseverance]

Cosy inglenook adventures.

—Gothic Histories

[gothicseverance]

If during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries progress was measured by technological change then it is in gothic literature that the first forms of modern mental alienation concomitant with that change are documented.

—Gothic Histories

Gif by 🤍 stewy 🖤

[gothicseverance]

Clive Bloom asserts that “Gothic signifies a writing of excess” as much as it signifies social disturbance, and goes on to identify this theory of excess with “theories of the excessive body” such as blood, sweat, and tears.

—Playground Love