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Gothy Books for a Dark and Stormy Night
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Phlegethos  Joined: June 2010 Posts: 69 Location: Eastern Lemuria Gender: 
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 Gothy Books for a Dark and Stormy NightLet's try to leave out the obvious ones: Ann Rice novels, 'Dracula', 'Frankenstein', even 'Wuthering Heights' [my all-time favourite, as it happens].
How about some lesser-known ones? here's my pick: 'From the Dust Returned', by Ray Bradbury.: just about as gothy as it can get in this life..... |
| Wed Jul 07, 2010 7:05 am |
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Malbolge  Joined: January 2004 Posts: 492 Location: Altoona, PA Gender:
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Re: Gothy Books for a Dark and Stormy Night AngryInch wrote: Let's try to leave out the obvious ones: Ann Rice novels, 'Dracula', 'Frankenstein', even 'Wuthering Heights' [my all-time favourite, as it happens]. How about some lesser-known ones? here's my pick: 'From the Dust Returned', by Ray Bradbury.: just about as gothy as it can get in this life..... That was an awesome book! Apparently it took him something like 30 years to actually finish it, and it is a definate change from his usual books, but I thought it was pretty cool. My vote goes to: "Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell"...of course, it might take you a few dark and stormy nights to get through it, but I thought it was a genuinly original and interesting book and perfect for any fans of good British writers. _________________ "Don't look, don't look" the shadows breathe... Whispering me away from you.. |
| Wed Jul 07, 2010 7:46 am |
 
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Re: Gothy Books for a Dark and Stormy Night Again with Ray Bradbury, I love "Something Wicked This Way Comes". It's even SET at Hallowe'en, and one day, I fully intend to read it on the dates the incidents occur.
On a British note, I have a real fondness for a set of short stories called "Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror", by Chris Priestley. It's written with a young(er) audience in mind, but I found some of the stories (it's an anthology of short stories bound by a linking narrative) quite awesomely shiversome. |
| Wed Jul 07, 2010 11:45 am |
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Phlegethos Joined: June 2010 Posts: 69 Location: Eastern Lemuria Gender:
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Re: Gothy Books for a Dark and Stormy Night On a second British note. you just can't beat the collected ghost stories of M. R. James.
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| Wed Jul 07, 2010 12:40 pm |
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Minauros  Joined: June 2010 Posts: 49 Gender: 
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Re: Gothy Books for a Dark and Stormy Night In a Glass Darkly (especially the stories "Carmilla" and "Green Tea"), & Uncle Silas by J.S. LeFanu.
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| Wed Jul 07, 2010 3:44 pm |
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Cania  Joined: July 2009 Posts: 1089 Location: Zombietown, PA. Gender: 
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Re: Gothy Books for a Dark and Stormy Night The Clive Barker "Books of Blood" were pretty good.
And I can probably think more about this when it's done being 94 degrees F here in the East US. _________________ Ahhh...I get to stay inside. |
| Wed Jul 07, 2010 4:46 pm |
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Manisha  Joined: October 2009 Posts: 8319 Location: Jacksonville Florida. Gender:
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Re: Gothy Books for a Dark and Stormy Night DarklyInclined wrote: Again with Ray Bradbury, I love "Something Wicked This Way Comes". Of course you would, Minnie, you're IN it!  _________________ "May I have the Enlightenment of Buddha, the Peace of Gandhi, the Balance of Loazi, the Confidence of Hypatia, the Logic of Dawkins, and the Science of Sagan to guide me in all things." -Midi |
| Wed Jul 07, 2010 5:20 pm |
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Cania  Joined: April 2009 Posts: 1844 Location: Joie de l'Eau, Maice Isle, Gothsylvania, otherwise Blackheath, London, UK Gender:
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Re: Gothy Books for a Dark and Stormy Night AngryInch wrote: On a second British note. you just can't beat the collected ghost stories of M. R. James. Beat me to it... _________________ Minty's Mumblings Aka: Elodie Eulie SeaMajic... thank you Nephele (see here). Aka: Aimee-Jo LaDélicieuse and Amela Joie Délicieuse, thank you again, Nephele  - (see here and here).Gothsylvania's ArchPagan... see here. |
| Thu Jul 08, 2010 1:27 pm |
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Cocky Canard  Joined: January 2009 Posts: 5777 Location: Bed Gender:
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Re: Gothy Books for a Dark and Stormy Night Oooh, I have 'From the Dust Returned' in hardback. Time to re-read it again. Mutants is a good non-fiction read. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mutants-Form-Varieties-Errors-Human/dp/0006531644
_________________ "Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so." - Doris Lessing Jereth Magas, Gothsylvania Minister of Unnatural Resources. |
| Fri Jul 09, 2010 8:59 pm |
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Cania  Joined: May 2010 Posts: 1206 Location: Portsmouth UK (sometimes Chillicothe Ohio) Gender:
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Re: Gothy Books for a Dark and Stormy Night I can't help think that many things by HP Lovecraft would be awesome on a dark and stormy night
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| Sat Jul 10, 2010 5:13 am |
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Minauros  Joined: July 2010 Posts: 48 Location: tullahoma, TN Gender:
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Re: Gothy Books for a Dark and Stormy Night All of the Black Jewels Trilogy-Anne Bishop. I guess they aren't as gothy but they're dark jus as well.
Sci-Fi/Fantasy _________________ I'm Gothalicious with whipped cheese!!--Lil' Jimmy Urine of MSI |
| Sun Jul 25, 2010 3:07 am |
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GAF  Joined: March 2009 Posts: 9286 Location: Alvin, TX Gender:
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Re: Gothy Books for a Dark and Stormy Night The Bell Jar
I can't tell you how much of that book made sense to me the first time I read it! I second anything by Clive Barker, he's brilliant! _________________ Merciful Shadows I'm on the quest for immortality here people! Down with death!! ~ Carpi In America, law violates you! ~ Arq |
| Mon Jul 26, 2010 6:29 pm |
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Administrator  Joined: July 2003 Posts: 2239 Location: NH, USA Gender:
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Re: Gothy Books for a Dark and Stormy Night The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. It'll give you the shivers in broad daylight, but it's perfect for a dark, story night.
_________________ AKA Stellana Neptunes, thanks to Nephele "The Dead Travel Fast." ~ Bram Stoker, Dracula's Guest |
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