#gothic horror lit

[basil-the-slinking-thing]

You know. I really and truly understand Jekyll’s horrible self hatred.

Because Hyde has ADHD.

A that means that before they split, Jekyll had ADHD.

And I have ADHD to know what that feels like.

I wouldn’t change a thing. It’s livable. It’s has enough advantages. It’s my favorite part of being alive. It’s also a fucking curse, and sometimes it makes me spiral into despair and shame and listless, bitter self loathing.

I don’t even believe it, but I sometimes find myself huddled in a ball muttering over and over again how I’ve failed to do anything significant with my life, and how I’m a worthless, horrible person. That everyone would be right to be disappointed in. That it’s not my fault that I’m losing the race, I’m just deficient and made wrong. ADHD doesn’t make you feel like that, but the consequences of having it do.

It’s like. It’s like if you gave one guy all the advantages of ADHD along with all of the side effects, but then you made some other guy do all the masking for him and carry all the emotional consequences. Which is literally what’s happening, I guess. (Almost like being a parent holding it together for a child. He is a lot of work and cannot do much for you, but you can’t very well just get rid of him.) Nobody should have to deal with the trauma of growing up with ADHD without also having all the advantages that make it worth it. All the resilience and zest for life and energy and thrust and exhilarating appetite and joy that comes from deep within your soul perpetually.

Of course Hyde is, himself, starting to scrape the surface of that “all of my fire and everything that I am has actually amounted to nothing” flavor ADHD trauma now. Would you look at that, he’s growing up.

[basilthesnakingthing]

The original book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is gothic and horror. The Musical took the concepts from that and turned the horror into tragedy. The Glass Scientists webcomic took them and turned the horror into a mix of angst and whimsy. My cartoon would take them and turn the horror into wholesome sillies and angst (in the background.) That is all.

(I am referring to this)

(Edit: AND NOW THERE’S MORE)

[diaryofaphilosopher]

"The shift from the Afro-Caribbean zombie to the U.S. zombie is clear: in Caribbean folklore, people are scared of becoming zombies, whereas in U.S. narratives people are scared of zombies. This shift is significant because it maps the movement from the zombie as victim (Caribbean) to the zombie as an aggressive and terrifying monster who consumes human flesh (U.S.). In Haitian folklore, for instance, zombies do not physically threaten people; rather, the threat comes from the voduon practice whereby the sorcerer (master) subjugates the individual by robbing the victim of free will, language and cognition. The zombie is enslaved."

— Justin D. Edwards, "Mapping Tropical Gothic in the Americas" in Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture.

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[horrorhodgepodge]

What Moves The Dead [Book Review]

🦇Summary A reworking of The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe – Sir Alex Easton visits kan old friends, the Ushers, in their untimely decay. 📚Themes & Topics: Fungi, Poe, Gothic Horror ⭐Rating: 🩸🩸🩸🩸 🧠 My thoughts For me, this is yet another winning work by T. Kingfisher. What Moves The Dead stays true to its gothic roots as a reimagining of The Fall of the House of Usher, but…

[mysharona1987]

[polturn]

Weird thing enjoyer found another weird thing to enjoy

Various Frankenstein doodlings. Abt half were from reference half from imagination.

Most of these are related to the Royal Ballet version which I watched a video of the other day. So good and such a wild combination. The elegant medium and the grotesque subject matter.

I also had to draw that amazing puppet version that was made for the Hamburg state opera. lil cutie he is

[can-of-w0rmz]

Being into gothic horror is wild, because you’ll look up the reviews/public opinion on a book and all the posts will be like “ugh, this was insufferable. The main character was the most melodramatic whiny narcissist cunt who’s perspective I’ve ever had the displeasure of following. When the main character wasn’t whining, it was just pages and pages of the most useless boring shit describing stupid landscapes over and over again. Boring and insufferable to read.”

And then you’ll get the book and read it and it’ll be like “Hi, I’m gothic protagonist. My entire family got brutally murdered by an unknown person and I also got horrifically abused as a child and struggle with severe mental illness, and now there’s unholy paranormal forces at work all against me, but at least I have the love of my life and my closest friends who I’d kill and die for and they’d do the same for me. Even though I’m cripplingly psychologically unwell and severely burdened with the mass of terrible things in my past, I’m going to figure out and track down the thing that killed my family and seek to destroy it, whilst poetically mirroring my suffering with the most beautiful and profound descriptions of the nature around me that you’ve ever read, contrasting the horror of nature with the beauty and goodness of it and giving you an existential crisis. This book is going to make you so ridiculously attached to these characters and change your whole perception of the life you lead.”

[draculaswidow]

"Even in the grave, all is not lost"

- Edgar Allan Poe

[mushr00m-collective]

“I can fix him!” That’s cute. I can break him. I can make him a shell of a man.

[basil-the-slinking-thing]

Realized that reason Edward Hyde reminds me of the feeling of being on Tumblr so much is because Tumblr is where you go when you want to leave your dignity and your face at the door. Which was like. The entire point of Hyde. So I’ve got a theory and I want y’all’s opinions.

Assuming the first option, I think Hyde would create like. A fucking iconic blog. Depending on how long he stayed here and how early he got on, I think he might be his world’s version of Pukicho. There is enough spite in his heart to pull it off and you know it.

Assuming the second option. Scientific shitposts. That’s what he would make. It wouldn’t get as popular cause he’d be nice and reblog more stuff, burying his original content like the rest of us. But he wouldn’t die, and he would not have felt the need to create Hyde in the first place because this place would teach him to actually be okay with the way he was an enjoy it actually, and this option wrenches my heart so much actually. I need it to be real in some timeline.

[georgiacooked]

Something Is Very Wrong With The Harkers...

Designs for two Lenticular Paintings I desperately want to print and stick in gothic Victorian frames.

[edelweiss-maiden]

‘‘𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘯𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘭. 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘳, 𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘦, 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵’’ — 𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑣𝑖𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑜-𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑐𝑖𝑎, 𝑚𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑔𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑐

[anotherscrappile]

Here’s a reminder that I have a website where you can read 15 obscure horror stories found in mid-1800’s literary magazines. I’m always searching for more, so check back periodically :D👍

[tantok]

Hello J&H community. Did you miss me

[suv-draws-stuff]

troubled old people my beloveds (also omagah its lanyon)

[shy-raccoon]

Gothic Lit Villain Swap

Dorian Gray wants to buy more real estate in London and holds his solicitor Jonathan Harker prisoner because he is fully corrupted by the painting and rich enough to get away with it. Then Lucy a fellow peer's sickly fiancee catches his eye.

Victor Frankenstein discovers a more sorcerous way to raise the dead and his first test subject is a recently deceased Transylvanian count

Dr jekyll makes a potion that turns him into a 8ft tall undead creature that haunts the night but heals him back to living in the day. Until the creature develops feelings of its own and is very angry about being put away during the daytime.