#new gothic

[sainted-places]

Details of Albrechtsburg Meißen, Saxony.

[sensitivedead]

𝔰𝔭𝔢𝔶𝔢𝔯 𝔠𝔞𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔡𝔯𝔞𝔩 𝔠.1061 (𝔰𝔭𝔢𝔶𝔢𝔯, 𝔤𝔢𝔯𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔶)

[howlsmovinglibrary]

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Did you like Crimson Peak? Jane Eyre? Lovecraftian horror but you wish it was less racist/homophobic/sexist/awful?

Everyone should read Mexican Gothic, but if these things apply to you specifically then you need to like, buy it now. This is an amazing Gothic/supernatural horror standalone novel about a Mexican socialite, Noemí, who receives a distressing letter from her recently married cousin Catalina. Concerned, she travels to her cousin’s new home, High Place, to try and see what has happened to Catalina now that she is married into the once wealthy Doyle family.

Intersectional feminist horror. The first half is a slow suspenseful building of a creepy, tense atmosphere, the second half is just full on buck wild horror film shit.

The kind of horror protagonist you’ve always wanted: that is, clever, canny, sensible, excellent deduction skills. No stupid decisions here!

Strong female female friendship, and the refusal to ascribe to survival of the fittest/leave anyone behind. 

Rather than using horror to demonise the Other, instead this book tackles racist, colonialist, and white supremacist eugenics discourse. 

Creepy, creepy dream sequences

Fucked up plants.

TW: racism, sexism, misogyny, eugenics, incest, attempted rape.

[gothabilly-kitty]

"punk vampire" by Louise Gasparian on INPRNT

[acidkiddo2000]

[mdrngoth]

HAPPY FALL, YA’LL

LOVE, MDRN GOTH

[weirdletter]

The New Gothic Review: An Online Magazine for Gothic Fiction, Volume I, edited by Ian McMahon, Zachary Monahan and Elizabeth Israel, April 2020. Cover art by Heather Parr, internal illustrations by Heather Parr, Katiana Robles, Liza Adamandidou B., Olivia Tinnin, and Kaylan Stedman, info and free dowload: newgothicreview.com.

The New Gothic Review aims to cultivate thought-provoking short fiction that embraces the tradition of gothic literature and reimagines the genre for the 21st century. We believe that modern gothic tales, with their intellectual exploration of the macabre, the unexplainable, and the psychological, deserve a platform of appreciation entirely of their own. Although the Gothic has such a rich history tied to place and tradition, its tenants are truly universal. The genre does not belong to any one type of story, just as it does not belong to one region of the world or to any one culture. If there are barriers to what Gothic literature can or cannot be, we want to bring them down. We want to open the door as wide as possible. We want to show that the Gothic is just as present on the beaches of Hawaii as it is in the English countryside. We want to celebrate any story that embraces the Gothic spirit and forces us to reconsider what the Gothic can be. And, at the end of the day, we hope to showcase collections of stories that connect us to new worlds and show how this beautiful genre is a universally human one.

Contents: Letter from the editors Royal Palm Court by A.A. de Levine The Hala Tree Walks in Darkness by Joseph DeMarco I’ll Bring It In by Rebecca Parfitt Butterfly by Tim Jeffreys Douglas Copeland by John Leahy Espejos / Ojos by R.M. Sandoval Contributors

[grim-ghastly]

Okay so we have Southern gothic and Western gothic, but have any of you considered Ozark Gothic?