#gothic tropes

[leannareneehieber]

Darlings! I'm SO excited! More Ghosts! This time, with GOTHIC feeling!!!! This goth is happy-dancing through haunted houses.

Publisher’s Marketplace Deal Report:

America’s Most Gothic by Leanna Renee Hieber, Andrea Janes

Imprint: @kensingtonbooks

Bram Stoker award finalists and authors of A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN: TRUE STORIES OF AMERICA’S GHOSTS Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes’s AMERICA’S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION, an examination of America’s most Gothic places and hauntings, featuring the weird and wild trappings of Gothic tradition such as hidden passages, wailing women, family curses, and more, with an emphasis on female spirits and the cultural narratives surrounding their stories, to Elizabeth May at @kensingtonbooks , in an exclusive submission, for publication in 2025, by Chelsea Hensley at KT Literary (world).

Non-fiction: History

August 14, 2023

#victorian #gothic #goth #ghosts #paranormal #new books #book deal #publishers marketplace #new book deal #books #non fiction #nonfiction #womens studies #womens history #gothic tropes #literary #women writers #americasmostgothic #haunted #haunted house #haunted history

[thegothiclibrary]

Gothic Tropes: The Cursed Wanderer

“I pass, like night, from land to land…” I mentioned the cursed wanderer in my recent post on Nautical Gothic, so I wanted to examine the concept here in a bit more detail. This is a character archetype that finds its way into many Gothic works both new and classic, either in the form of a villain, a tragic side character, or an antihero. The cursed wanderer is an outcast from society, usually…

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#antisemitism #character tropes #cursed wanderer #Dracula #Gothic tropes #Melmoth the Wanderer #St. Leon #The Monk #trope #vampires #Wandering Jew

[fieryskies]

I love the ugliness of love. Removing love from its socially accepted roots. Love as not a mere source of tragedy and sadness, but as an active corruptive power over those it mystifies. Love as the addiction without cure and the wound forever bleeding. I love seeing the beauty of something so coveted spun on its head.

#fiction tropes #gothic romance #dark romance #writing #hannigram #hannibal x will #hannibal the series #villaneve #villanelle #killing eve #lawlight #l x light #death note #sebaciel #madohomu #puella magi madoka magica #wuthering heights

[becomingvecna]

#dark academia #prose #lyric edit #lyric aesthetics #whump #writing #angst #romantic academia #goth #gothic #poem #literature #quotes #quote #writeblr #whump prompts #whump tropes #whump prompt #whump trope #writer #writing prompts #writing prompt #writing tropes #writing trope #tropes #prompts #trope #prompt #spilled ink

[kasieli]

I have absolutely zero business imagining Yule Ball designs since I’m not even remotely close to writing that chapter (which I would like to but we’re not even two chapters in) but also I have zero self control so here have them anyways.

#hogwarts legacy #sebastian sallow #hogwarts legacy mc #sebastian sallow x mc #fanart #they’re wearing Ravenclaw colours bc my OC is Ravenclaw thank u and goodnight #although I do have a version that’s green and seb’s suit def looks nicer green but I want them to match #bc that’s usually what formal attire is right #seb’s suit is gothic-esque bc late 1800s is still gothic era and I love the gothic era #also can we appreciate his cute lil slicked back hair #I had some Victorian/gothic inspo for Elly’s dress but it turned out more modern but that’s ok #can we also appreciate Poppy’s gown I drew it on a whim but it’s so cute? #god I am so weak for prom/formal event tropes #sebastian x mc

[afterphantoms]

maybe its just me and my love of all things gothic, but i've been really surprised by the classification of saltburn as a (poorly executed) 'eat the rich' satire. i would've said it was primarily gothic fiction and that the class commentary was more a backdrop to that than the major thesis of the film, so it's interesting that a lot of people seemed to interpret it mostly or entirely through the lens of class satire. i'll be interested to see if the interpretation/reaction to the movie changes at all between the theatrical release and the digital one in a couple weeks; my perception is that a not insignificant number of people went into saltburn expecting something like parasite and were justifiably disappointed. not me though i'm a sucker for a fucked up gothic romance

#saltburn #barry keoghan #jacob elordi #emerald fennell #like the structure of the movie follows gothic romance/horror pretty perfectly up until the twist #at which point my interpretation was that the whole point was taking gothic tropes and then flipping them around #honestly found myself thinking of crimson peak quite a bit while watching! #honestly i would make a list of all the gothic tropes in saltburn but it would be so spoiler-ridden and long #itd have to be under a read more 😭

[duskandherembracex]

My favourite genre of media is unhinged homosexuals

#be gay do crimes is the best new trope #interview with the vampire #kinporsche #Do Revenge #the picture of dorian gray #Hannibal #young royals #yr s2 #goncharov #more wlw shows like this pls #text #my p0$t #gothic lit #iwtv #vampire chronicles #the vampire lestat

[burningvelvet]

#literature #english literature #1800s #19th century #gothic literature #romantic literature #romanticism #jane austen #the bronte sisters #charles dickens #tropes #lit #classic lit #classic literature #reading #books #poll #literature poll #book poll

[thegothiclibrary]

Gothic Tropes: The Faustian Bargain

Gothic Tropes: The Faustian Bargain

We all know never to make a deal with the devil right? The concept of engaging in trades or bargains with demonic figures has been a common motif in folklore around the world for centuries, but this particular iteration—the Faustian bargain—derives its name from the Germanic folk legend of Doctor Faust. These legends spring from a real historical figure, a sixteenth-century itinerant alchemist…

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#Doctor Faustus #faust #Faustian Bargain #Gothic tropes #Melmoth the Wanderer #The Monk #The Picture of Dorian Gray

[blackrosesandwhump]

You know how Gothic/romantic horror is full of the damsel in distress trope?

Well...

What if it was a mansel in distress instead?

Just imagine:

A beautiful, distressed *man* in a loose, partly unbuttoned white shirt...

Running for his life, or trapped in a Gothic castle, or stalked by a mysterious monster, or whatever...

And getting all beautifully bloodied and wounded in the process.

Mmmmmm, yes please 🖤🤩

#gothic literature #gothic horror #gothic romance #damsel in distress #horror tropes #gothic writing #gothic aesthetic #gothic fiction #gothic #thoughts #male whumpee #whump inspiration #gothic whump #writing thoughts #whump aesthetic #mmm yes #gimme #i will take a mansel in distress

[becomingvecna]

❝ Be my victim, ❞ he said.

❝ No, ❞ she murmured.

❝ I won’t force it upon you, ❞ he replied, the perfect gentleman. ❝ I won’t oblige you to die, but think, think; I kill you here – if I unhook you, ❞ he traced the path of the promised wound with his hook, it ran from groin to neck.

❝ Think how they would mark this place with their talk, point it out as they passed by and say: ‘She died there; the woman with the green eyes.’ Your death would be a parable to frighten children with. ❞

— Clive Barker, Books of Blood

#book #books #dark academia #literature #goth #writer #writing #gothic #writeblr #reading corner #quotes #quote #aesthetic #chaotic academia #feral academia #whump #angst #whump tropes #whump prompts #whump prompt #whump trope #writing tropes #writing prompts #writing trope #writing prompt #angst tropes #angst prompts #angst trope #angst prompt #prose

[nipuni]

I'd love to know more about your OCs when you have time

😭💘💘💘 SHJHGAJWHFG this makes me happy!!!

I don't want to give away too much so that my adhd brain doesn't overshare and lose motivation to work on the story so I'm struggling to hold back 😫

It takes place in a house on the shore, the shifting rooms of the house, the dense ocean fog and moving garden vines reveal and obscure the history of it's inhabitants. An unexpected visitor washes up on the shore one afternoon. Lucile and Vincent are from entirely different time periods. Lucile is blind in one eye, Vincent walks with a cane. AAAH I don't know what else to share that is not saying too much 😖 It is a character driven gothic romance/horror about trauma, death, regret and revenge and the story changes depending on your choices. I'm sketching a bunch of art of them and been writing in between work so I'll be sharing more stuff soon 🥰 I'm so flattered by the interest it really means so much to me 😭 I want to share their story to the best of my ability and I'm teaching myself a lot of new things so I can do that, I really hope you will enjoy it once it's done 🥺

#nips replies #every gothic trope I love crammed together sakjfhsf #the other shore #(the title of the story is a clue too 🤔 )

[theboarsbride]

🕯🦋🥀

#beauty and the beast #gothic #gothic romance #beauty and the beast retelling #monster romance #monster boyfriend #gothic horror #gothic lit #batb #monster x human #human x monster #beauty and the beast trope #monster character #monster lover #bird monster #fairytale retelling

[blackhholes]

Hauntology in Teen Wolf

Haunted Images, Deadness, and Impossible Mourning by Matt Foley / The Hauntology/Narratology of the Neo-Victorian Ghost Story by Brenda Ayres / “Penelope Was Not a Phantom”: Everyday Hauntology in Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood by Joakim Wrethed / “What She Had Seen Was Final”: Everyday Hauntology, the Threat of Male Violence and the Power of Fiction in Alice Munro’s “Free Radicals”, “Runaway” and “Passion” by Joakim Wrethed

#teen wolf #hauntology #teen wolf meta #twmeta #peter hale #kate argent #lydia martin #scott mcall #malia tate #gerard argent #web weave #webweaving #mine #teen wolf academia #BACK TO MY ROOTS Y'ALL #anyways i could make this infinitely long if i wanted to there's sooo much of it in teen wolf #in many ways a lot of the show draws on gothic and victorian genre tropes 5b just does so more overtly as i've said before #but if only i could get su completely embedded in teen wolf and to watch the whole thing she could come up with some insane gothic #references within the show but alas that hasn't happened yet

[poeticruin]

let's be mutuals, i promise i'm a cool person *slowly closes the door to my basement-turned-into-a-lab for mad scientific purposes and gruesome experiments*

#mutuals #interact #mad scientist #my fav trope #no but rlly befriend me #i'm bored #dark academia #shit post #academia aesthetic #literature #chaotic academia #friends #lets be mutuals #mad science #sciencecore #grotesque vampiresque #gothic academia #mood #fyodor kinnie #bsd fandom #lit entusiast #bookworm #sapphic vampires #madsciencecore #darcypost

[zeerohpunk]

Porter and Treasure vibes

#this is me projecting #let me have this emo/gothic friends w benefits to lovers trope thank u #zeeroh speaks #redacted audio #redacted asmr #redactedverse #redacted porter #redacted treasure