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“In the mirror, a darker version of myself follows directly behind me. No matter which way I turn, it’s turning immediately before me. I feel a furry smoke spreading its way up my arms. I don’t let myself think.”

— Jac Jemc, The Grip of It

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c. 1910s - (Via)

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i seriously cannot comprehend the sex drive that makes one exclusively horny for captain america looking movie hunks or the victorias secret angel archetype of tall underweight women with generically pretty faces in bikinis. that shit is like carbon monoxide or infrasonic noise to my libido like my sexual senses cant even clock it

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Hans Feurer - Lesley Jones Wearing a Gina Fratini Outfit (Vogue UK 1968)

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facebook marketplace treasures

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Issa Lish, Natalie Westling & Bernd Sassmannhausen in “Horror Movie” by Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia April 2014

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they should let you get xrays and mris just cause. i wanna see what my skelinton looks like. i wanna see my organs and shit

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i love you.

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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Lytton Strachey (September 1925)

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Wings sourced from beekeepers dealing with the loss of their hives due to extreme weather, the pieces are made to memorialize the bees.

"A veil lifts between two worlds: light and dark; life and death; individual and union. It is worn in ceremony of transition. It is a fabric of both grief and celebration, made up of a community, a hive." by lucijockel

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when a character is referred to as someone else's dog. you agree

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Woman in White Reading British (English) School Brighton & Hove Museums

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girlhood this girlhood that. woman you are 26

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“— she’s a creature you should save your last kiss for…”

— Myriam Gurba, excerpt of “E = MaChismo²,” Painting Their Portraits in Winter: Stories

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An anonymous individual asked @awildwickedslip for recommendations of literary criticism on the gothic, and she directed them to me, so I thought it was time I make a rec list on the topic.

I'm keep this to more general analyses, but of course have a lot of recommendations for more works on more specific texts (especially but not limited to Dracula).

I'm also including some things that are more properly about amatory or epistolary fiction, because I think an understanding of those genres will serve you well in contemplating the gothic.

Mario Praz, The Romantic Agony

Nina Auerbach, Our Vampires, Ourselves

Christy Desmet and Anne Williams (eds), Shakespearean Gothic

Kate Ferguson Ellis, The Contested Castle

David J. Skal, The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror

Devendra P. Varma, The Gothic Flame

Angela Carter, The Sadeian Woman

Roland Barthes, Sade, Fourier, Loyola

Elizabeth Cook, Epistolary Bodies

Jacqueline Howard, Readng Gothic Fiction: A Bakhtinian Approach

Toni Bowers, Force or Fraud: British Seduction Stories and the Problem of Resistance

Peter Cryle, The Telling of the Act: Sexuality as Narrative in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France

Peter Cryle, Geometry in the Budoir: Configurations of French Erotic Narrative

Jalal Toufic, Vampire: An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film

Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literature

Marianne Noble, The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature

Terry Castle, The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth Century Literature and the Invention of the Uncanny

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Two Liverpool ship tiles, circa 1757-61

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i can turn anything in to metaphorical sex in my mind.. beware i have a literature critics heart