Post from Mary Ann Bernal - YouTube Vlad the Impaler — Inspiration or Coincidence? Post 1 of 5 Bram Stoker’s Dracula is often linked to Vlad the Impaler, the ruthless 15th-century ruler of Wall...

Vlad the Impaler: Inspiration or Coincidence? — Was Stoker’s Dracula born from history’s tyrants, folklore, or pure imagination?
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America’s Most Gothic: When History Becomes the Haunting In this episode of Haunted History Chronicles , I’m joined by authors Andrea Janes and Leanna Renee Hieber, the minds behind America’s Most Gothic , to explore the …

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The Shape of Darkness by Laura Purcell

Continuing my gothic (and Laura Purcell) stint, Shape of Darkness is another excellent story from an author who I’m quickly realising has an amazing talent for viscerally descriptive world-building. This story is dual POV. First is Agnes, a woman in her fifties trying to make ends meet after various losses in her family left them without financial support. Second is Pearl, a child under the care of her older sister who insists on utilising (read: exploiting) the young girl’s gifts to make money as a spirit medium to the rich and ignorant.

The protagonists are from starkly different backgrounds but there is overlap in the tragedies we learn they have both encountered—and, indeed, as their stories begin to collide, we realise that the horrifying truth of what’s happening has been far closer to home than expected. For me, at least, the final twists and turns of the tale were completely unexpected and tragic yet, when I reflect on the sad tale, all too inevitable.

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Review of The Shape of Darkness by Laura Purcell.

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Babae - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away!! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #3rdCenturyADHistory #MilitaryHistory #RomanImperialHistory #GothicHistory #EuropeanHistory #GermanicTribes #Huns #Legions #Auxiliaries #AncientWarfare #TheFallOfRome #WargameResearch #HistoryBookChat

#dolls #creepydolls This amazing doll was spotted on our recent trip to The Toy and Miniature Museum in KCMO. #gothdolls #unusual #gothichistory

Portrait of Countess Elizabeth Bathory (1580)
by Anthonie Blocklandt

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