Nov 4, 2025
The Gothic Fantasy Cities I'd Kill To Live In (And Proceed to Immediately Die): Some Thoughts on Tchaikovsky's City of Last Chances and Hanrahan's Gutter Prayer
Imagine an urban spread of countless buildings, their ages and styles suggesting not just a physical but a temporal sprawl. Cloying at the sky are spiky arches, stone and twisting metal and glass dirty with soot. Down below, brick buildings and sprawling manorhouses stand behind fences of iron latticework while ancient ruins cast an undeniable promise on the desperate inhabitants of squalid…
