Two stars fall from the sky//One shining in the light, the other sinking into darkness//A ripple drawing the two of them together//One will walk the path of pride and receive the sun's guidance//One will walk the path of unbridled ambition//Demanding sacrifice//Let that burning in your soul calm the trembling of your heart//Strike down your fears//With … Continue reading But is it Gothic? – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure!
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But is it Gothic? – Adventure Time
But Is it Gothic? – Adventure TimeMarceline the Vampire Queen, Adventure Time opening sequenceVampires? Check. Creepy landscapes? Check. Radioactive fallout resulting in mutations of sentient lollipops – come again? No I didn’t spill magic-mushroom flavour ice cream all over my handbook to Gothic literature, I’m just very excited to be writing a piece on one … Continue reading But is it Gothic? – Adventure Time
But is it Gothic? – Courage the Cowardly Dog
This week, the Gothic Reading Group met to discuss the childhood cartoons that formed us into the wonderful Gothic adult-children we still are to this day. Daniel Southward here discusses his relationship to a cartoon dog. Why do we watch things that make us afraid? It's an important questions and one that dogs Gothic and Horror … Continue reading But is it Gothic? – Courage the Cowardly Dog
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"?
A Fresher Possession- Rob Kirkman’s Outcast
From the creator of The Walking Dead comes Outcast: visually stunning and at times genuinely terrifying and creepy, this new horror television series aims to follow the success of The Walking Dead in reimagining an established but perhaps stale horror genre, although here the focus is not Zombies, but demonic possession. Adapted from the comic … Continue reading A Fresher Possession- Rob Kirkman’s Outcast
Forshadowings: Performance Gothic in ‘Over the Garden Wall’ (Featuring ‘Penny Dreadful’ and ‘American Horror Story’)
In our next session, Sheffield Gothic is continuing with this semester’s theme of ‘performance Gothic’. This week, we turn to the silver screen: Penny Dreadful, American Horror Story and Over the Garden Wall. Frequent visitors to this blog will perhaps recall that I’ve gushed about Over the Garden Wall, Patrick McHale’s 10 part 2014 animation … Continue reading Forshadowings: Performance Gothic in ‘Over the Garden Wall’ (Featuring ‘Penny Dreadful’ and ‘American Horror Story’)
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