Looking to expand your Halloween festivities? Hop on the train or take a short drive to York - often regarded as one of the most haunted cities in the UK, if not the world. York is the perfect inspiration for any lover of the Gothic, from the towering Gothic cathedral York Minster, to the quaint … Continue reading Ghosts in the Gardens – a Gothic adventure trail
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The Dead Days: Life and Death
Photo by Charles Parker on Pexels.com Welcome back to the Dead Days, and to the first of our posts exploring liminality and thresholds in the Gothic. Today, we’ll be thinking about the boundary between life and death, and those who exist in-between: the eerie undead. The undead crop up over and over in the Gothic, … Continue reading The Dead Days: Life and Death
A Ghost Story For Christmas
There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories— Ghost Stories, or more shame for us—round the Christmas fire Charles Dickens, ‘A Christmas Tree’, Household Words (1850) The association between Yuletide cheer and seasonal fear emerged from the Victorian era’s appetite for … Continue reading A Ghost Story For Christmas
What does The Haunting of Bly Manor owe to The Turn of the Screw?
Bly Manor. Netflix. The Netflix series, The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), is a reimagining of Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw (1898). Initially set in the twenty-first century, it looks back to 1987 and the story of a young woman who takes on the role of au pair to two orphaned children living … Continue reading What does The Haunting of Bly Manor owe to The Turn of the Screw?
Is The Living and the Dead "Thomas Hardy with Ghosts"?
Proving that ghost stories aren’t just for Christmas, the BBC deviated from the broadcasting mantra that spine-chilling shows are best served up on a cold winter’s night by including The Living and the Dead in the summer schedule for 2016.Nathan Appleby, played by Colin Morgan.Set in 1894, the series centres around troubled psychologist, Nathan Appleby, … Continue reading Is The Living and the Dead "Thomas Hardy with Ghosts"?
Are you Afraid of the Dark-Hearted Man? The Fifty Year Sword.
Last Wednesday, Sheffield Gothic met to talk stitching, orphans, and vengeance, as we discussed Mark Z. Danielewski's The Fifty Year Sword (2005), a novel which attempts to novelise the ghost story.Within the glossy pages, we are introduced to Chintana, a heartbroken seamstress who dreams of vengeance against her husband’s seductress, Belinda Kite. Chintana soon decides to attend … Continue reading Are you Afraid of the Dark-Hearted Man? The Fifty Year Sword.
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