I'll be talking about my book Spider, Spider at Hestia books k Wirksworth on the 12th April (2-4pm).
If you're in the Peak District, come along for bookish chat over a cup of tea on a Sunday afternoon.
#histfic #gothiclit #booksky
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A promotional flyer on a dark blue background for a "FREE TALK" titled "WOMEN OF THE EGYPTIAN GOTHIC". The event is "Online via Zoom" with two sessions at "10.00am & 19.00 BST". The flyer features two inset photos: the top left shows author Anne Rice, labeled with her name, wearing dark clothing and sunglasses; the bottom right shows a blonde woman in a leopard-print dress and patterned tights standing at a wooden podium holding papers.
FREE ONLINE TALK: Women of the Egyptian Gothic! 🦇💅
We're looking way beyond the Victorians to talk hallucinogens, covetous desires, and 80s pulp horror penned by incredible women.
🕰️ 10am & 7pm BST
🔗 Ticket link in bio!
#WomenInHorror #GothicLit #EgyptianGothic #BookSky
I hope you enjoy reading that essay on Clara Reeve by M. G. Turner, who happens to be my adult son. Btw, in January 2027, he'll be publishing a collection of contemporary gothic short stories, "City of Dark Dreams: Tales from Another New York," w/ @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social. #Booksky #gothiclit
Riding a horse in fast gallop, a woman and a man embracing
As he spoke he smiled, and the lamp light fell on a hard -looking mouth, with very red lips and sharp-looking teeth, as white as ivory. One of my companions whispered to another the line from Burger’s “Lenore”: Denn die Todten reiten schnell”. (“For the dead travel fast.”)
‘For the dead travel fast..’
📕 Bram Stoker, Dracula
⬇️ Johann David Schubert, Lenore
#BookWormSat #GothicLit
Sleeping woman in a white nightgown, head and arms hanging down from the bed, one knee up. An incubus is crouching on her chest, and the head of a white horse (the night MARE haha) is staring at her from above.
‘…or the pain of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.’
📕 B. Stoker, Dracula
🖼️ H. Fuseli, The Nightmare
#BookWormSat #GothicLit
The tomb in the daytime, and when wreathed with fresh flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough; but now some days afterwards, when the flowers hung lank and dead, their whites turning to rust and their greens to browns; when the spider and the beetle had resumed their accustomed dominance; when time-discoloured stone, and dust-encrusted mortar, and rusty, dank iron, and tarnished brass and clouded silver-plating gave back the feeble glimmer of a candle, the effect was more miserable and sordid than could have been imagined. It conveyed irresistibly the idea that life -animal life- was not the only thing that could pass away.
‘The tomb in the daytime…had looked grim and gruesome enough; but…’
📕 Bram Stoker, Dracula
🖼️ Caspar David Friedrich, Monastery Graveyard
#BookWormSat #GothicLit
I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over the dreadful abyss, face down with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings. At first I could not believe my eyes. I thought it was some trick of the moonlight, some weird effect of shadow, but I kept looking, and it could be no delusion. I saw the fingers and toes grasp the corners of the stones, worn clear of the mortar by the stress of years, and by thus using every projection and inequality move downwards with considerable speed, just as a lizard moves along a wall.
‘I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over the dreadful abyss..’
📕 Bram Stoker, Dracula
⬇️ Cover of a 1916 edition
#BookWormSat #GothicLit
Cover of the book. On a blood red background, a/the castle and some bats in flight.
‘We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.’
📕 Bram Stoker, Dracula
#BookWormSat #GothicLit
A large pile of books with dark pink edges. On top is a book facing outwards showing the cover of Spider, Spider by LC Winter.
'Dozens of novels are published annually that fall into this subgenre, but this is one of the most original in recent years.' Sunday Times - Nick Rennishaw.
'Gloriously gothic' DV Bishop
Links are in my bio.
#histfic #booksky #gothiclit
Release day is here! Actually it was yesterday but my social media manager* (cough) forgot to post it here.
*me
#booksky #histfic #gothiclit
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Reading Wuthering Heights Part 4 (The finale!) - I'll do a video on the new movie (which I just got back from) next. Hopefully you'll see that tomorrow. But here are my final thoughts on the book. #BookSky #WutheringHeights #GothicLit
Spider, Spider is one of the Times' march picks for historical fiction! 😁
#histfic #gothiclit #booksky
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A digital illustration of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights. Cathy is a ghost, pulling at Heathcliffs hair, which Heathcliff seems a bit mournfully serene with. Cathy is angry.
'and whatever it was, it communicated, apparently, both pleasure and pain in exquisite extremes.'
[ #wutheringheights #gothiclit #bookillustration ]
Looking for #gothiclit recs for my friend! She really likes atmospheric stuff but isn't into super flowery prose. Fucked up and surreal are good. The Monk by Lewis has been her favorite. She liked The Rotting Room but thought it was too long. She did not like Dracula. What can y'all suggest? #books
What is Gothic Egyptomania?
Once, it was so huge, Egyptomanian horror was bigger than vampire horror.
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#booksky #gothicbooks #gothiclit
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#Frankenstein
#MaryShelley
#GothicLit
#TechBroSatire
#Frankenstein200
#GothicHorror
#ScienceFiction
#UncheckedAmbition
#LiteraryAnalysis
#Romanticism
#TheMonster
#CreatorAndCreated
#EthicalTech
#VictorFrankenstein
#ClassicLit
#TeenGenius
#ParadiseLost
#LiterarySatire
Me smiling in front of some art, holding a hardback copy of Spider, Spider.
Author copies of my book are here! #booksky #histfic #gothiclit
A digital illustration of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff stands in front of an open window, dirt in his hands and staring straight a head. Surrounding his head is Catherine as a ghost. She clutches his cheek, her face covering half of his face, their eyes overlapping as she glares at the viewer. The wallpaper in the room is yellow.
something something 'haunt me then!' something something
[ #wutheringheights #gothic #artsky #gothiclit ]
Welcome back to Wonderland.
Nothing here survives unchanged.
The Book of Alice: Red Queen, Yellow King
#GothicFantasy #DarkFantasy #DarkGothic
#DarkFiction #GothicLit #DarkTales
#EpicFantasy #gothic #FantasyReaders #DarkLiterature #IndieAuthor #FantasyHorror #aliceinwonderland
please read this book The Faithful Dark by @catebaumer.bsky.social 5/5 stars !!! coming Feb 19!!! #booksky #darkfantasy #gothiclit
Our Gothic Reading Group Resurrects for the New Year!!
Join us Jan. 23 @ 2 PM EST for Jessica John's Bad Cree
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#SSAG #ReadingGroup #GothicLit
A digital illustration of the Creature and Elizabeth as depicted in Frankenstein 2025. It is based off a scene in the movie. Elizabeth is gently touching the creatures face as he looks at her longingly
starting off the year here with one of my favorites from 2025
[ #frankenstein #gdtfrankenstein #gothiclit #art ]
The past doesn’t always knock. Sometimes it waits in a frame, folded in a letter. The Thorn and the Rose is haunting in all the right ways.
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#Books #AmReading #BookTok #ReadingCommunity #AuthorsOfTwitter #GothicLit #PsychologicalFiction
Be sure to keep an eye on the SSAG website and our mailing list for a variety of gothic and horror-related cfps and other announcements!
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#SSAG #GothicLit #Horror #cfp
Our Gothic Reading Group Resurrects for the New Year!!
Join us Jan. 23 @ 2 PM EST for Jessica John's Bad Cree
gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#SSAG #ReadingGroup #GothicLit
Welcome back to Wonderland.
Nothing here survives unchanged.
Red Queen, Yellow King
Releases December 28th. Preorder Today!
#GothicFantasy #DarkFantasy #DarkGothic
#DarkFiction #GothicLit #DarkTales
#EpicFantasy #gothic #FantasyReaders #HorrorBooks #DarkLiterature #IndieAuthor #FantasyHorror
New post alert! I'm back on my haunted house bullshit this week with a review of The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas.
#ReadingHasRuinedMyLife #bookblog #bookreview #horror #GothicLit #hauntedhouse #booksky
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Op Shop Glory! All for $6 NZD . 3 reads and a watch.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST - Sergio Leone
MAGIC TALES (7 Tales) - Peter Straub
REBECCA - Daphne du Maurier
THIRTEEN STOREYS - Jonathan Sims #horrorstories #classicwestern #gothiclit
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Grateful to @fangandflowerlit.bsky.social for featuring my photograph, 'Of Blood & Propriety,' in their inaugural issue. And deep thanks to Editor Jean Wood, whose curation keeps the space haunting and alive. 🖤🌹
#fang&flower #gothiclit #queerartist #photographyart #literarymagazine #darkaesthetic
Did you know George Dibdin-Pitt’s 1846 novel "The Sea-Fiend" dives into gothic intrigue with a mysterious abbot at its core? A lesser-known gem that blends suspense and historical drama, it reflects the era’s fascination with ecclesiastical mysteries. (Q110207698) #GothicLit #VictorianNovels
