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A Mountain of Sable Plumes
Strawberry Hill, Walpole’s Gothic revivalist manor, in Twickenham. Earlier this week, to commemorate Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday, Flavorpill found ten Gothic short stories for our delectation, and I...
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Sympathy for the Devil
Melmoth the Wanderer and the bizarre appeal of gothic horror. From the Penguin Classics edition of Melmoth. I have long been a rather reluctant fan of gothic horror. The reluctance comes from never...
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The Draw of the Gothic
To understand the literary gothic—to even begin to account for its curious appeal, and its simultaneous qualities of seduction and repulsion—it is necessary to undertake a little time travel. We must...
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The Horror of Geologic Time
Arthur Machen. In 1895, the editors of a new magazine, The Unicorn, sought to make a splash by engaging a pair of literary hot properties to contribute parallel series of tales. The two writers were...
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