#gothic literature

[heartgoth90]

If I were Frankenstein, I would have just made a hot monster.

But I guess I'm built different.

“Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?”

[iamumbra195]

Jason Todd should’ve been written by Mary Shelley. She would have done him justice.

[satisfyingshark]

‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾　dracula by bram stoker (folio society edition)

[kusnechik]

My my, Kusnechik this is the second time so far you've drawn someone else's Hyde's design instead of your own. Are you perhaps mmm broadening your horizon...?

Anyway, @dross-the-fish this is how his recruitment for the Motley crew went, right?

[isablooo]

made some self-indulgent mock-up book covers with my gothic lit art 🖤

[veilwaltz]

[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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[kleinergeist]

Hey. Don't cry. Weird teenage girl somewhere out there reading Frankenstein for the first time. Ok?

[pigeon-princess]

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”

I've had this vision in my mind for ages so I finally decided to take a stab at drawing a cover for one of my favourite novels⚡

[can-of-w0rmz]

So, the Nosferatu movie was surprisingly good

[mysharona1987]

[theoptia]

Daphne du Maurier, from Rebecca

Text ID: A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.

[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

[juneacademia]

When Emily Brontë wrote, “He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

[xxrrisxx]

Sometimes I'm terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.

Edgar Allan Poe