"I feel very proud to be a black Creole vampire, in the show. I mean, I hope that all it does is opens the gates for more. Let's tell more stories. Let's be monsters! And enjoy it! Yeah, let's be problematic. Give us the space to be a problem." - Jacob Anderson
brought a flask of tea to the library but apparently did not sufficiently wash out the mushroom soup flavour from yesterday, so here I am sipping on a gnomish brew
Classics
Vathek by William Beckford
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Woman in White & The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Monk by Matthew Lewis
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin
The Vampyre; a Tale by John Polidori
Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Short Stories and Poems
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience by William Blake
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Pre-Gothic
Beowulf
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Oedipus, King of Thebes by Sophocles
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
Gothic-Adjacent
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
Jane Eyre & Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems by Coleridge and Wordsworth
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
The Idiot & Demons (The Possessed) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
Historical Theory and Background
The French Revolution of 1789 by John S. C. Abbott
Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. Bradley
The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance by Edith Birkhead
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
Demonology and Devil-Lore by Moncure Daniel Conway
Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism by Inman and Newton
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Feminism in Greek Literature from Homer to Aristotle by Frederick Wright
Academic Theory
Introduction: Replicating Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture by Will Abberley
Viewpoint: Transatlantic Scholarship on Victorian Literature and Culture by Isobel Armstrong
Theories of Space and the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Isobel Armstrong
The Higher Spaces of the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel by Mark Blacklock
The Shipwrecked salvation, metaphor of penance in the Catalan gothic by Marta Nuet Blanch
Marching towards Destruction: the Crowd in Urban Gothic by Christophe Chambost
Women, Power and Conflict: The Gothic heroine and “Chocolate-box Gothic” by Avril Horner
Psychos’ Haunting Memories: A(n) (Un)common Literary Heritage by Maria Antónia Lima
‘Thrilled with Chilly Horror’: A Formulaic Pattern in Gothic Fiction by Aguirre Manuel
The terms “Gothic” and “Neogothic” in the context of Literary History by O. V. Razumovskaja
The Female Vampires and the Uncanny Childhood by Gabriele Scalessa
Curating Gothic Nightmares by Heather Tilley
Elizabeth Bowen, Modernism, and the Spectre of Anglo-Ireland by James F. Wurtz
Hesitation, Projection and Desire: The Fictionalizing ‘as if…’ in Dostoevskii’s Early Works by Sarah J. Young
Intermediality and polymorphism of narratives in the Gothic tradition by Ihina Zoia
brought a flask of tea to the library but apparently did not sufficiently wash out the mushroom soup flavour from yesterday, so here I am sipping on a gnomish brew
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