Category: gothic
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Book Review: The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons My rating: 4 of 5 stars ”If we find that all our efforts have failed and someone buys the house, we shall set fire to it and burn it down. We will do this at night, before it is occupied. In another time they would have plowed…
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Book Review: A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle My rating: 5 of 5 stars ”Most people, if you describe a train of events to them, will tell you what the result would be. They can put those events together in their minds, and argue from them that something will come to pass. There are few…
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The Origin Story of My Involvement with Gravelight Press
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is an origin story. It was a dark and stormy night. Don’t groan. It really was. Booming thunder, swirling fog, blazing flashes of lightning, sporadic torrential rain, the whole frilling works. I walked down an…
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Book Review: Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
”My strange and beautiful companion would take my hand and hold it with a fond pressure, renewed again and again; blushing softly, gazing in my face with languid and burning eyes, and breathing so fast that her dress rose and fell with tumultuous respiration. It was like the ardor of a lover; it embarrassed me;…
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Book Review of: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The New Annotated Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson My rating: 5 of 5 stars ”It came about that Edward Hyde was so much smaller, slighter, and younger than Henry Jekyll. Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the…
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Book Review: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson My rating: 5 of 5 stars ”No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood…
Jeffrey D. Keeten 