People who can get there are lucky: A Pleasing Terror Two Ghost Stories by M R James Performed by R M Lloyd Parry This December Nunkie Theatre Company are...
Hello. Im a student studying creative writing and for my dissertation I got to study gothic literature. This was great as Ive been a lover of all things gothic...
Hi Sally. Do you know what aspect of the Gothic you are looking at in your dissertation? I'm most familiar with C19 and late C18 literature myself though I'm...
A new edition of the "horrid" novels mentioned in Jane Austen's _Northanger Abbey_ is about to be published. They have been available for some years, but at a...
Most interesting......Not that long ago that the 'Northanger Seven' were thought to be the creation of Miss Austen's fertile imagination, before Monsignor...
... At the risk of sounding like the stuffy academic I try not to be, it was Michael Sadleir, the (non-academic) bibliophile, who discovered the "reality" of...
Be that as it may (or mayn't) I kind of admire admire litterateurs like Summers, Poe and Byron, who actually lived a Gothic lifestyle rather than being an...
No I've not read them, but I did begin one -- it was as good (or bad) as many another minor novel of the period. Sadleir has an informative pamphlet on them....
The incipit of "The castle of Wolfenbach": "The clock from the old castle had just gone eight when the peaceful inhabitants of a neighbouring cottage, on the ...
I need to read some more early (i.e. 18^th century) gothic. I’ve read Walpole, Radcliffe, Lewis and Beckford. An author I haven’t read is Clara Reeve. Has...
... Her _The Old English Baron_ is one of the touchstone texts of the early Gothic tradition. It's a response to Walpole's _Otranto_ which sought to "tame"...
I read "Manon Lescaut", but found it horribly boring. etext available here, http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/468 courtesy of those wonderful Gutenberg people. ...
A powerful (particularly in the opening sequence and again one of the sections told wholly subjectively by a mad secondary heroine), is Sophia Lee's _Recess_....
... Once you get away from the mainstream it's surprising how much stuff is still untranslated. And how much stuff even in English is hard to find. I've just...
... Do you think Théophile Gautier’s “Mademoiselle de Maupin” belongs in the roman noir tradition? I haven’t read it. I’ve been trying to track down...
Dear Al, I don't know. Gautier's book is more mid-19th century, no? What happens is the term "roman noir" is extended so that it begins to include Sand,...
Hey, thank you for replying. A lot of groups Ive tried dont seem to want to know. Im looking at modern examples of gothic and the aspects of writing that make...
Dear all, I am doing some research on the origins of the modern speculative genres (mystery, adventure, horror, fantasy, SF, etc), especially the chain of...
Thanks to Ellen Moody for mentioning our new set of Jane Austen's "Horrid Novels" on this group... As she said, Clermont by Regina Maria Roche is now available...
Hey, thanks, I'll try the International Gothic Association but Im looking at modern gothic in my dissertation. I would have loved to look at gothic in its...
Dear Al and list, "Mademoiselle de Maupin" is included in my copy of _The Works of Gautier_ , published by Black's Readers Service Company in 1928. I am not ...
... I have one of Lafcadio Hearn's books, "Kwaidan". It's his versions of traditional Japanese ghost stories, and it's quite wonderful. I believe he was an...
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