This is another text that we’ll be reading as part of the 2025 ‘Scare a Day’ reading challenge, but you’re welcome to read it on its own. The story is an extract from Matthew Lewis’ novel The Monk. It was a common practice at this period to reprint summarised and adapted versions of popular GothicContinue reading “‘A Night at Baptiste’s’ – An Extract from Matthew Lewis’ The Monk“
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My Visitation by Rose Terry Cooke
I’m gearing up for this year’s 2025 #AScareADay reading challenge (a frightening story a day in October!). Some of the stories and tales I’m including aren’t that easy to find online and this is one of them! You can read this one now or wait until the challenge This is Rose Terry Cooke’s tale ‘MyContinue reading “My Visitation by Rose Terry Cooke”
Devils and Justified Sinners – 2 day online conference – 24/25th August
Romancing the Gothic presents its fourth annual online conference over two days – 24th and 25th August. The conference celebrates 200 years of James Hogg’s Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner with a series of talks, events and workshops. You can sign up here The conference is designed to cover different timezones soContinue reading “Devils and Justified Sinners – 2 day online conference – 24/25th August”
Romancing the Gothic 5 star reads (2023)
Every week Romancing the Gothic runs an online book group (everyone’s welcome as often or as infrequently as they like – use the contact page to get in touch if you’re interested!) We read short stories, graphic novels, novellas, novels, watch tv shows and sometimes play interactive games. At the end of each year, IContinue reading “Romancing the Gothic 5 star reads (2023)”
Radcliffe’s Heroes in Order of Uselessness
Ann Radcliffe, the ‘Great Enchantress’ of the early British Gothic, was one of the most famous and popular writers of her time. She’s the star Gothic reference in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (1816) and a must-read for everyone who’s just starting their journey in the rise of the Gothic in the late 18th century. SheContinue reading “Radcliffe’s Heroes in Order of Uselessness”
Georgette Heyer and the Gothic
It’s Heyer week here at Romancing the Gothic! In book club, we’re reading The Quiet Gentleman (1951). On Saturday the class is ‘Rethinking the Gothic Romance: Georgette Heyer’. I’m aware that two quite disparate groups of people are interested in this week’s content and both groups might have their suspicions about exactly what Heyer andContinue reading “Georgette Heyer and the Gothic”
The Discerning Evil-Doer’s Guide to Gothic Villainy
Too many young villains today fall into error as soon as they begin their path, like an awkward child belly-flopping enthusiastically into a puddle. They believe that villainy is a simple case of evil-doing (ha!). A swift and effortless choice of wrong over right via the medium of a bullet or blade. A career pathContinue reading “The Discerning Evil-Doer’s Guide to Gothic Villainy”
The Gothic Heroine’s Survival Guide
Have you suddenly realised that you’re in a Gothic novel? (Key signs to look out for: you’ve been kidnapped at midnight, you have moved to an echoing mansion full of secrets, your husband has this beady ‘loves to kill’ glint in his eye, a mysterious portrait dominates the ruined castle to which you’ve been removed,Continue reading “The Gothic Heroine’s Survival Guide”
Mysterious Influences: Religion, Empathy and Illness in Victorian Queer Gothic – Bibliography
Today’s post is a guest post! This is @BronteSchiltz biography from her amazing Sunday Gothic class with us. You can tell I didn’t do it because it is fully and correctly formatted! So many good sources here. This is an ‘influences’ bibliography so not everything in it was talked about directly or referenced in theContinue reading “Mysterious Influences: Religion, Empathy and Illness in Victorian Queer Gothic – Bibliography”
‘I never saw a ghost except once in a dream’: The History of Gothic Dreams
This is the Bibliography from today’s #romancingthegothic class. There are some links. Hope they’re useful. PRIMARY TEXTS Anon. – ‘Dreams’ in Dublin Literary Gazette, 23 – 1830 Anon. – ‘The Astrologer’s Prediction or the Maniac’s Fate’ – 1826 Charlotte Dacre – Zofloya – 1806 Daniel Defoe – The History of the Devil – 1724 DanielContinue reading “‘I never saw a ghost except once in a dream’: The History of Gothic Dreams”
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