I've written another movie review blog on the series called _Shades of Darkness_ (1983, Granada, much praised): "Afterward:" An Instance of How Film Must...
Swedish vampire novel 'Let the Right One In' ('Låt Den Rätte Komma In' in the original) (2004) by John Ajvide Lindqvist has just been translated into English...
Hello. I am new to this group and joined as I am currently in year 12 and starting my English Extension 2 course in which I have chosen to write a short gothic...
Hi Guys- If you are looking for the classic Gothic novels- check out the publishers Zittaw Press and Valencourt Press- Both carry an excellent line of...
The basic trope is a girl who finds herself in a castle in the middle of the woods in Eastern Europe menaced by a Nobleman and/or Vampire and his aged...
What were the best, or the most interesting, gothic short stories you read this year? This is my top five: Gustav Meyrink, THE LAND OF THE TIME-LEECHES F....
Do you have any gothic reading resolutions for the New Year? Are there any gothic classics you've been meaning to read for years but haven't, that you're...
I've only just found out that there's a movie version of Matthew Lewis's THE MONK. Made in 1972, directed by Adonis Kyrou, starring Franco Nero, Nathalie...
And there was me getting my hopes up. I guess I'll just have review 'Virgin Witch' (1970) - the worlds tackiest occult film (unless you know different...). ...
You'll love this then - as its about the tackiest film ever. Sort of puts the X into exploitation. The Michelle sisters, who star in it, spend most of the...
... It's a satansploitaton movie? Now I definitely need to buy this one! They're almost as much fun as nunsploitation movies. Colin ... Now see personally I'd...
Talking about Gothic type X-ploitation, can anyone explain to me whats going on in the illustration here?: http://www.valancourtbooks.com/catalogue.html Colin ...
Just to say that it seems that the new Oxford University Press edition of Sweeney Todd has just been published. Maybe it even tells us who wrote it? Haven't...
Deep within the vast catacombs beneath the old manse, nothing stirred, save Morgan, rustling the pages of her well thumbed copy of "Carmilla" "tis some...
"Young Maiden - that is Forbidden Literature!" - croaked the weather- beaten tall dark stranger as he roughly pushed open the rotten timbers of the old oak...
"But, but, Madame, you look so young!" interjected the tall dark stranger. "Have you perhaps been experimenting with the elixir of eternal youth...or maybe,...
Upon flinging open the ancient, creaking portal I beheld a gaunt, disheveled grad student / English teacher whimpering, "Wait until after the finals. WAIT...
Hmmmm.....the castle seems to have dissapeared and I've woken up under two rotting corpses swinging under a gallows in the middle of a deserted rocky...
She had potions and lotions, herbs and tanna leaves guaranteed to blow your mind. For a dime or a nickel anyone could buy voodoo of any kind. Colin ... of a ...
Are you not from the Deep South Al?: she lived in a world of magic, possessed by the devils skew. From a shack near the swamplands, made of mud-pile brick...
The needle? One book,read by my mother when she was 20 (35 years ago), of which neither the exact title, nor the author, nor the character's names can be...