Gothic Literature?
What precisely constitutes the word 'Gothic' when used as a descriptive adjective? The only answer to this question covering all bases, would have to involve moods and emotions. True 'Gothic' nature leaves the observer with a particular sense of longing... a dark, almost-forlorn Pathos of a sweet, ancient sentimental nature. Such Pathos is not normally an acquired taste, but instead a disposition present from birth... somber, solitary, existing on the far-edge of the subconscious heartlands. We hope visiting 'Gothics' enjoy the story offerings to follow.
Gothic Poetry
The "Graveyard Poets" began as a number of primarily pre-Romantic English poets of the 18th century, characterized by their Gothic meditations on mortality, skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms in the context of the graveyard & the Afterlife. To this was added, by later practitioners, a feeling for the 'sublime' and uncanny, and an interest in ancient English poetic forms and folk poetics. They are often reckoned as precursors of the Gothic genre, with W.B. Yeats as their eventual preeminent champion and key representative of the form. Click the EDGAR ALLAN POE icon below.
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ALGERNON BLACKWOOD (1869-1951)British author, adventurer, newspaper reporter, factory owner, 'psychical researcher' & confirmed bachelor, ...Blackwood's career and interests were widely varied, although he is best known now as one of the foremost authors of ghost stories in the 20th C., perhaps one of the finest ever. His own deep fascination with and understanding of "spiritualism" as well as of human psychology (in the Jungian archetypal sense), is responsible for the impressive power and effectiveness of his Gothic, ghostly tales. http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/blackwood.html |
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THE MAN WHOM THE TREES LOVED (audio book 1-9)
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H.P. LOVECRAFTHoward Phillips Lovecraft (1890 -1937) known as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the sub-genre known as weird fiction.
Lovecraft's guiding aesthetic and philosophical principle was what he termed "cosmicism" or "cosmic horror," the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally inimical to the interests of humankind. As such, his stories express a profound indifference to human beliefs and affairs. |
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Codex Seraphinianus, originally published in 1981, is an illustrated encyclopedia of a Gothic world, created by the Italian artist, architect, and industrial designer Luigi Serafini during thirty months, from 1976 to 1978. The book is approximately 360 pages long, and written in a cipher alphabet in an imaginary language. Considered by many to be the most mysterious modern manuscript in the world.
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EDGAR ALLAN POE
Edgar Allan Poe (1809 -1849) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic/Gothic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
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BRAM STOKER
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. Stoker had been special friends with Oscar Wilde since his student days. They grew apart during their career years, but Stoker later resumed the acquaintanceship after Wilde's fall by visiting him on the Continent. Stoker had an avid interest in the occult, especially mesmerism, but was wary of occult fraud and believed strongly that superstition should be replaced by more scientific ideas; he is even rumored to have become a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The original 541-page manuscript of Dracula, believed to have been lost, was eventually found in a barn in northwestern Pennsylvania during the early 1980s. It included the typed manuscript with many corrections, and handwritten on the title page was the amended title, "THE UN-DEAD."
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LINKShttp://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/bram.stoker.asp
http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/stoker.html http://www.bramstoker.org/links.html http://www.imdb.com/find?q=dracula&s=all http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dracula+true+real&oq=dracula+true+real&gs_l=youtube.3...1016.3201.0.3548.10.9.0.1.1.0.217.1368.3j4j2.9.0...0.0...1ac.1.5xKxjEsTEjE | ||
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RAY BRADBURYRay Douglas Bradbury (1920-2012) was an American fantasy, science fiction, Gothic horror and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451(1953) and for the science fiction and horror stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles (1950) & The October Country (1951), Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers. Many of Bradbury's works have been adapted into television shows or films.
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ADDITIONAL GOTHIC CLASSICS
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