Hello, yes, it’s really me… alive and well* and with new offerings. I shall allow a moment for the shock to wear off… Over on Instagram I recently asked whether you, dear consumer of multimedia content, preferred when I post under monthly themes or not. The majority vote was for a hybrid – a Dr… Read More Audio and Irony: ‘The Heart is a Lonely Hunter’
With summer somewhere between full swing and distant memory depending on where you were on the globe, in August we retreated from the sunshine of the Southern Gothic to the dimly lit cityscapes and natural wilds of 19th century Europe. As you may have read here, August was all about monsters and the monstrosity of… Read More Duality: ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’
It seems rather apt that the sun is absent today, as the Southern Spell fades and a new season is welcomed in. This month is Of Monsters and Men – it is an exploration of the monstrous in gothic fictions and realities. Before I reveal The Seven Gothic Signs you can use to easily identify… Read More Identifying the Gothic: The Seven Gothic Signs
With a light brightly shining on the ugly face of police brutality and racial inequality in the United States of America, the whole world has stood up, has begun to question systemic racism across the countries of the world, has pledged to stay standing until we achieve an anti-racist normality. Against the bleak backdrop of… Read More Curate a Library to Help You See: in Maya’s Words
Originally planned for longer ago than I care to admit, todayโs blog post is one I have been eager to share with you. It is one that feels increasingly relevant as we strive towards global anti-racism, and one that I hope you will agree was worth the wait. If you weave in and out of… Read More New Gothic Voices: an Interview with New Gothic Review
The Season of the Witch is half over and there is so much yet to explore. Soon I hope to take you on a literary journey of the witch as character, but in the meantime, I have enlisted some help. ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐๐๐๐ I could think of no one better to dive deep into the canvas… Read More Aesthetically Hoarded Guest Post: Witches of Western Art
It has been almost three weeks since I finished Donna Tartt’s The Secret History (1992), slowly, dragging it out for as long as I could. On first finishing it, I thought that I wasn’t satisfied with the ending. I quickly came to realise that, whilst maybe I don’t think it’s quite perfect, it was the… Read More Always, Always, Live Forever: ‘The Secret History’
Warning! The following review includes spoilers; if you’re yet to watch the Dracula (2020) miniseries, I would recommend saving this post and coming back to it once you have.Now, on with the show… [Reading note: Dracula refers to the character, Dracula to the novel, and Dracula (2020) to the TV series in question.] “๐ด ๐๐… Read More But One Word: Dracula (2020)
Welcome to 2020! It is the year of the rat, and so I begin by rummaging through the dark corners of my bookcase for the texts that I have hoarded this past year, but not yet read. “๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ท ๐ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ท๐ท๐ธ๐ฝ ๐ผ๐ฎ๐ฎ ๐๐ธ๐ป๐ญ๐ผ ๐ฌ๐พ๐ป๐ต๐ฒ๐ท๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ด๐ฎ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ท๐ฐ๐ผ ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ผ๐ถ๐ธ๐ด๐ฎ ๐ป๐ธ๐พ๐ท๐ญ ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ ๐ช๐ถ ๐ฒ๐ท ๐ญ๐ช๐ป๐ด๐ท๐ฎ๐ผ๐ผ – ๐… Read More Words Curling Round Me: 2020 Reading List
Whilst some of you are still making your way through Little Sister Death for the #generallygothicbookworm read-along which Gothic Bookworm and I have been hosting throughout December, we’ve decided to postpone our final, spoiler-filled blog posts until after Christmas… Having finished the novel ourselves, however, we’re both too filled with feelings to stay silent until… Read More Generally Gothic Bookworm Readalong: Lore in ‘Little Sister Death’
“๐ฃ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐ถ๐ธ๐ผ๐ฝ ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ป๐ป๐ฒ๐ฏ๐๐ฒ๐ท๐ฐ ๐ท๐ธ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ต ๐๐ธ๐พ’๐ต๐ต ๐ป๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ผ ๐๐ฎ๐ช๐ป.” Now there’s a claim that’s hard to refuse! During the summer I spent a month, entitled ๐ฅ Southern Spell ๐ฅ , exploring the southern gothic. I first posted (on Instagram) about William Gay’s Little Sister Death then. Some of you praised the novel, or declared adoration for… Read More Generally Gothic Bookworm Readalong: Midway Musings on ‘Little Sister Death’
Forgotten in the Mitten is an online shop filled with โforgotten or discardedโ items, based in Michigan, USA – nicknamed the โMitten Stateโ after the shape created on mapping its outline. Everything, including found photographs, oddities, and antiques, is handpicked by treasure-collector and shop-owner, Erica, who joins Generally Gothic to discuss her obsession with the… Read More Found Circus Photographs: Forgotten in the Mitten Interview
The sky is grey and filled with drizzle so British it could only be New England west of the Atlantic. The train slowly fills, stop by stop, with tourists, commuters, and the occasional resident in uniform black. The train pulls in and everyone piles out, following the locals into Salem Town. Leaving Washington Street for… Read More A Walk Through Salem: A Photo Essay
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