Tag: gothic fiction
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From Gothic Thriller to Art Film
Another fun website that reviews and analyzes genre films is Braineater, created and maintained by Will Laughlin. In this installment he reviews the French film La Chambre ardente (1962), “a movie that sits somewhere between an art film and a Gothic thriller,” directed by Julien Duvivier, based on a classic novel by the American author…
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Harry Potter and the Gothic Tradition
At The Leaky Cauldron, Elizabeth Murray talks about Harry Potter and the Gothic Novel: For as long as J.K. Rowling’s novels have been on best-seller lists and up for literary awards, reviewers, critics, and scholars have been attacking the novels and especially the adults who freely acknowledge their love of these “children’s books”. In a New…
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Bill’s Bookshelf: The Midnight People
The Midnight People 1968, Popular Library Edition, Published by arrangement with Leslie Frewin Publishers Limited Edited by Peter Haining I bought this book, brand new off the shelf for 75 cents, in 1968 or 1969, when I was a teenager. While The Midnight People is ostensibly a vampire anthology, Editor Peter Haining chose to include a…