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[mcdarkart]

This week’s zine is full of messy prints, moody oils, and weird thoughts. Issue 31 of Black Spring Weekly is here with Gelli printing fails, clown portraits, and inked iconography. Grab it for free, share it wildly. Link in bio 🖤 📖 #BlackSpringZine #ClownArt #GelliPrinting #McDarkArt

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- Snail Lady -

The "Snail Lady" is an evocative digital portrait that blends gothic elegance with surreal symbolism. This artwork features a woman adorned with giant snails, their glossy shells adding an earthy contrast to her pale complexion and dark, intricate clothing. Her piercing gaze and facial piercings suggest a mix of vulnerability and rebellion, while the radiant golden halo and red backdrop evoke religious iconography, transforming her into a saint-like figure of nature and mystique. The subtle details, such as her tattoo and the textures of the snails, create a mesmerizing interplay of beauty and strangeness, captivating the viewer with its modern gothic aesthetic.

[mcdarkart]

Issue 30 of Black Spring Weekly is here — and she’s messy, moody, and full of ink.

This week, I dive into Gelli plate printing, charcoal experiments, print design woes, and finally finishing the underpainting for Temptation. There’s tarot, tunes, and a spotlight on the rebellious spirit of Japanese girl gangs — Sukeban.

The zine is completely FREE and packed with artist process notes, randomness, visual journals, works in progress, and unapologetic mess-making.

If you’re into behind-the-scenes grit, dreamy updates, and following an indie artist without the algorithm, this is for you.

🖤 Read it, share it, print it, screenshot it. Support: ko-fi.com/mcdarkart | patreon.com/mcdarkart

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BOOK REVIEW: YOU DID NOTHING WRONG by C.G. Drews

You Did Nothing Wrong by CG Drews is an extraordinary psychological thriller. I literally couldn’t put it down. Elodie is living a dream. Only twenty-two years old and the mother of six-year-old, she has met the perfect man who has whisked her away from the hovel she was living in in Australia, to an old Victorian home in Virginia. Bren, her new husband, adores her, but she has secrets that she…

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BOOK REVIEW: THE DAUGHTERS OF BLOCK ISLAND by Christa Carmen

When I was offered this book through Amazon First Reads, I jumped at it for several reasons. First, I love gothic fiction. Second, I write gothic fiction. And, third, I lived on an unconnected island off the coast of Maine for seven years and loved it. Thus, this novel appeared to be right in my wheelhouse. The story begins when Blake Bronson, who was given up at birth, arrives on Block Island…

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[splatland]

THE MATEGUAS ISLAND SERIES

THE MATEGUAS ISLAND SERIES

THE MATEGUAS ISLAND SERIES: Award-Winning Contemporary Gothic Fiction by Linda Watkins Execerpts from Chanticleer Book Reviews & Media: BOOK I: MATEGUAS ISLAND, A Novel of Terror & Suspense “…magical, edge-of-your-seat horror…an engrossing tale that will captivate readers from start to its climatic finish with remarkable character development and a thoroughly gripping plot.” BOOK II: RETURN…

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[generallygothic]

"𝕸𝖞 '𝖆𝖙𝖙𝖎𝖙𝖚𝖉𝖊' 𝖙𝖔𝖜𝖆𝖗𝖉𝖘 𝖌𝖍𝖔𝖘𝖙 𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖘 𝖎𝖘 𝖔𝖓𝖊 𝖔𝖋 𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖍𝖗𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖎𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖊𝖘𝖙 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖆𝖉𝖒𝖎𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖎𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖞 𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖜𝖊𝖑𝖑 𝖙𝖔𝖑𝖉." - May Sinclair 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷 Mine too, May, mine too. 👻 Today, the weather has been howling, pouring, and generally kicking up a fuss. I have been tucked up with 'In the Night Wood' - a fairy tale, an ode to literature, and a tragedy of loss articulated through magical realism, the gothic, fantasy and, I hope, folk horror too... I'll save further comment until I'm done. 👻 It has been a perfectly Novemeber-y day; Halloween lingers in the air, the spooky season is in full swing and Christmas and winter seem suddenly close. 👻 I also aattended a fascinating lecture on Victorian and Edwardian female authors of ghost stories. The Christmas tradition of spectral storytelling of course came up, as did one fine British gentleman - a staunch supporter of his female contemporaries. I imagine Sinclair would consider his own tales well told too... 👻 Today's image serves as a conceptual depiction of November, existing between the Tradition of Terror and Decadence and Decay. It is also a sneaky little #thespookynerdsbookclub spoiler for the upcoming readalong, which @rabbitheartedreader, @engaginglit, & I are getting increasingly excited about cohosting next month! Details coming soon... 👻 🤔: Are you breaking the "rules" and embracing Christmas/seasonal/holiday traditions early this year? If so, I salute you in your festive rebellion! 🤔: Does the fact that 'attitude' is quoted in inverted commas lead anyone else to assume Sinclair is being consciously attitude-y (and love her for it)? . #natureisgothic #folkhorror #contemporarygothic #dalebailey #inthenightwood #bookstagram #englishliterature #victorianliterature #edwardianliterature #christmas #halloween #spookynerds #bookblogger #bookclub #readalong #teaser #spoiler #ghoststories #femaleauthors #charlesdickens #achristmascarol #classicliterature #decemberreads #maysinclair https://www.instagram.com/p/CHlf6fsgb3W/?igshid=1f8ums1we5rm8

[generallygothic]

From Yvonne Crossley (PhD RWA)'s 'Serial Consequences' (2014-7). #generallygothic #gothic #rwa #art #modernart #contemporarygothic #serialconsequences #rwa #rwabristol #yvonnecrossley #bristolart