#gothic authors

[writingwithfolklore]

Gothic Month!!

Hii everyone! For the month of October, I'm posting once every day (uh--ish) on my Instagram on all things gothic lit. We'll mostly be talking classic gothic and its authors, tropes, etc. but there will also be contemporary gothic aesthetics and book recommendations, plus lots and lots of quotes from my favourite books and authors.

If that sounds like even a bit of fun, please go check it out @gatesannai on Instagram!! I'd love to hear your gothic hot takes!

[bloodsuckingviolet]

🎃Ultimate October Reading List👻

I compiled a list of 20+ of my favorite spooky reads, the creepiest, darkest paranormal stories and novels that are perfect to read when October comes around. Feel free to add your favorites in the comments or reblogs!

-Gwen🦇

The Banshee's Warning by Charlotte Riddell (haunting banshee)

The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe (black cats, supernatural)

The Case of the Leannabh Sidhe by Margery Lawrence (changelings, evil fairies)

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (classic ghost tropes; considered to be the very first gothic novel)

Carmilla by Sheridan le Fanu (lesbian vampyres...need I say more?)

A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family by Sheridan le Fanu (haunted, eroding castle, jilted wife)

A Dead Man of Varley Grange by Anonymous (cursed cottage)

The Dead Sexton by Sheridan le Fanu (mysterious corpse thief)

Dracula by Bram Stoker (THEE vampyre, superstitions)

Dobrev (young clairvoyants, succubus, written by yours truly!)

The Family of a Vourdalak by Aleksey Tolstoy (vampyre, recently adapted into a fantastically weird French film)

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (creation, horrors of life)

The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen (supernatural, erotic)

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (paranormal, curses)

Hugues, the Wer-wolf by Sutherland Menzies (OG werewolf story)

In the Closed Room by Frances Hodgson Burnett (ghosts, mysterious closed door)

Laura Silver Bell by Sheridan le Fanu (evil fairies, witchcraft)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (ghosts, autumn vibes)

The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis (cruel and dark, such an insane read!)

The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs (supernatural, death)

The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe (gothic romance, castles, supernatural)

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (ghost, romance)

The Sandman by E.T.A. Hoffmann (dark fairy tale elements, obsession)

The Shadow of a Shade by Tom Hood (haunted portrait)

The Story of Medhans Lea by E. and H. Heron (haunted house, men getting scared, lol)

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (murder, good vs. evil)

Tales of Terror from the Black Ship by Chris Priestley (underrated horror author!)

Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth by Christ Priestley (eerie and disturbing short stories)

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe (guilt, murder)

The Tomb of Sarah by Frederick Loring (cursed tomb)

The Trod by Algernon Blackwood (evil fairies)

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (ghosts)

Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror by Chris Priestley (first of a great ghostly, gruesome trilogy)

The Vampyre by John Polidori (one of the OG vamp tales; seductive, evil vampyre torments a young man and his sister)

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill (even creepier than the movie)

[mysticum-draconis]

Happy Frankenstein day! 🫀⚡️

I drew this last year for Mary Shelley’s birthday (she’d now be 227 years old!). I wanted to do another for this year, but unfortunately I’ve been too busy with other things 😕 I wanted this drawing to look more realistic than this, but I was fairly happy with how it came out in the end. My reference was a portrait of Mary done in 1840 (I think).

I started reading the 1831 version of Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus this time last year after many months of trying to find a nice copy of the book. Mary is a constant inspiration to me, as an aspiring writer, especially as she was so young when she first wrote her masterpiece! I’d love to read some of her other stories.

2B, 3B and HB graphite and mechanical pencils and Lyra aquarelles on 160 gsm paper.

I did my best to copy her signature for her name at the bottom ✏️

Progress photos below cut.

Please don’t use or post on other websites without credit or permission, thanks 🙏

[hyperfixating-on-literature]

I need something to push me strongly enough towards finally picking up the stories of Algernon Blackwood and Ambrose Bierce, cause I'm expecting to love them both. There's just not enough time and motivation for them right now...

Someone - please tell me what you like about them and get me excited to pick them up!

[elegantedgeentomology]

𝔚𝔢 𝔰𝔥𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔡𝔦𝔳𝔢 𝔡𝔬𝔴𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔤𝔥 𝔟𝔩𝔞𝔠𝔨 𝔞𝔟𝔶𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔰... 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔩𝔞𝔦𝔯 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔇𝔢𝔢𝔭 𝔒𝔫𝔢𝔰 𝔴𝔢 𝔰𝔥𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔡𝔴𝔢𝔩𝔩 𝔞𝔪𝔦𝔡𝔰𝔱 𝔴𝔬𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔯 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔤𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔶 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯 - ℌ 𝔓 𝔏𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔠𝔯𝔞𝔣𝔱

[blondebooklion]

I know Oscar Wilde was an anti-imperialist but can someone tell me if he was one that thought it was bad in general due to the destruction and death it caused to other counties or was he one of those that didn’t like imperialism cause you know he racist and didn’t want to associate with other cultures

[gothicseverance]

The majority of Gothic novels were written by women, and the remaining fraction were written by putatively gay men.

—Coming Out of the Castle

[gothicseverance]

For some of these women, the tension lay in the lack of agency or control they had over their lives, or the attempts made to domesticate or tame the parts of themselves deemed “unladylike” in their times.

—Rabbit Hole