E. J. Clery refers to the Gothic combination of sexual, familial and economic restrictions that creates a constrained environment and forces the heroine to recognise ‘the inescapable bonds of kinship.’ The hidden identities of characters and these ‘inescapable bonds of kinship’ that are linked to sexuality are revealed by endowing kin with either strikingly similar or opposite traits. Relatives are presented as either alike to the point of being interchangeable in looks, name and nature or as stark opposites.
—Jenny diPlacidi, Gothic Incest: Gender, Sexuality and Transgression
Other excerpts and stills from “The Lady of the House of Love” by Angela Carter, “Olalla” by Robert Louis Stevenson, Stoker (2013), interview with Mia Wasikowska on filming Stoker, “No Human Hands to Touch” by Elizabeth Wein, Cat People (1982), “The Hedge Knight” by George R. R. Martin, Dark Dance by Tanith Lee, Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
