#gothic

(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood. ↗

— André Breton

#childhood #gothic #imagination #radcliffe #art

I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#heathcliff #destruction

This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow. ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#description #gothic #owl #purple #ruin

The questions push me further into the space in between, the place where my madness lays waiting for me. I struggle with each question, determined to extract some sort of answer, an explanation for everything that has happened so far. But no answers come and I’m forced to acknowledge the feeling lodged between my two worlds Terror. ↗

— Christine Fonseca

#horror #psychological-thriller #ya #thriller

Another tug and a yank at my chestnut curls and she snarls at me, “You are so much like her.” This is something my mother often says and never explains. Though it is a great mystery to me it is also a blessing, for she always hurries from the room after saying it. ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#dark-romance #gothic-romance #strong-heroine #suspense-drama #thriller

You Just scared me half to death," I said. "You should be thrilled you're halfway there. ↗

— Rae Hachton

#gothic-romance #marcus-marble #pretty-in-black #rae-hachton #young-adult-series

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#books #enjoy #fiction #gothic #i

Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#boat #book #characters #far #feel

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling. ↗

— Guillermo del Toro

#backbone #devil #ghost #gothic #graphic

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture. ↗

— James Wyatt

#beauties #country #forgotten #gothic #long