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Du musst mir nichts geben Nur lass mir mein Leben Denn ich gehör nur mir

Pia Douwes | Elisabeth | Vienna 1992

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Adam Cooper as Boris Lermontov and Ashley Shaw as Vicky Page in Matthew Bourne’s production of 'The Red Shoes'

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The Erlking, illustrated by Albert Sterner, 1910

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Masquerade

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i just realized something about what's maybe my favorite kind of dynamic especially in incest fiction (but not only) and how it relates to my love for vampire stories

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William Bell Scott (1811–1890) - Woman Startled by the Ghost of a Girl by a Mirror

source

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and are death and the maiden perhaps looking for a third

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“Murnau represents and interrogates the perverse pleasure underpinning the littoral zone as a site of an intricate web of intimacy, reciprocity, interconnection, identification and contagion. Mingling attraction and repulsion, Ellen’s disorientating slippage into Otherness is disturbingly and enthrallingly enacted on the seashore, where relations “are ever in multidimensional flux”. Waves of disquiet break on the beach as “secret affinities” eerily emerge from the watery depths. These unpredictable, subversive correspondences, which encompass the telepathic link between Nosferatu and Ellen (and mirror the communication between Dracula and his victims explored in Stoker’s novel), are established by Murnau’s editing, which, Dalle Vacche suggests, is “indebted to the principle of empathy, or Einfühlung, which means literally a ‘feeling into’ another.”

— Julia Biggs, “Haunted Seascapes and Sublime Terror in Murnau’s Nosferatu and Friedrich’s Monk by the Sea”

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henry blackwell, spirit photographer c.1909

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Nosferatu, Andrea Calisi

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Ellen Rogers

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as i was feeling more motivated, i started reading a gothic novel set in a haunted castle, and i had forgotten how intense situations of imprisonment that heroines usually undergo can be for me. it's not just about feeling dread & terror, but living vicariously through her while there's a sort of projection on my part about how i should behave after long periods of endurance

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Just thinking about Will, in this exact moment, hearing and feeling Hannibal's heart pounding and finally knowing the answer to his question, "Is he in love with me?"—that raw certainty hitting him firsthand. Like damn.

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Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (Richard Blackburn, 1973)

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Alfred Rudolfovich Eberling (1872–1951) - “Tamara and Demon”, c. 1910

illustration for Mikhail Lermontov's poem 'The Demon'