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This is a masterpost of Gothic literature, a genre popular in the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe (and to a lesser extent in America), which combined horror, fantasy, and Romanticism. The list is organised by genre and date. All texts are public-domain and are available online via the links provided. Happy reading, and feel free to ask if there’s anything you’d like me to add.
Novels and Novellas:
- Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto (1764)
- Friedrich Schiller: The Ghost-Seer (1781)
- Anne Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
- Matthew Gregory Louis: The Monk (1796)
- Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (1818)
- Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey (parody, 1818)
- John William Polidori: The Vampyre (1819)
- Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre (1847)
- Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights (1847)
- Edgar Allen Poe: The Light-House (unfinished, 1849)
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla (1872)
- Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
- Theodor Storm: The Rider on the White Horse (1888)
- Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
- Bram Stoker: Dracula (1897)
- Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera (1911)
- H.P. Lovecraft: The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1936)
Short Stories:
- Washington Irving: “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow“ (1820)
- Edgar Allen Poe: “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839), “The Man of the Crowd” (1840), “The Masque of the Red Death” (1842), “The Pit and the Pendulum” (1842-1843), “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843) [You can find a complete index of Poe’s works here.]
- Robert W. Chambers: The King in Yellow (short story collection, 1895)
- H.P. Lovecraft: “The Moon-Bog“ (1926), ”The Music of Erich Zann“ (1922), ”Herbert West – Reanimator“ (1922), ”The Lurking Fear“ (1923), ”The Rats in the Walls“ (1924), ”The Dunwich Horror“ (1929) [You can find a complete index of Lovecraft’s works here.]
Poetry:
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (1798), “Christabel” (1800)
- John Keats: “La Belle Dame Sans Merci“ (1819), ”Isabella, or the Pot of Basil“ (1820)
- Edgar Allen Poe: “Lenore” (1843), “The Raven” (1845), “Annabel Lee” (1849)
- Emily Bronte: “A Death-Scene“ (1846), ”Honour’s Martyr“ (1846)
Five knots will I tie for every unfriendly and unfaithful shooter – on the guns, on the bows, on every weapon of war. O knots, shut against the shooter all highways and byways, close up the guns, put all the bows out of order, string together all the weapons of war; in my knots let there be almighty virtue.
—Russian folk magic spell against enemy weapons, quoted in W.F. Ryan, The Bathhouse at Midnight: Magic in Russia (via winawinadajcie)
With today’s news of another innocent black youth shooting, we should all give this spell a shot.
(via green-witch-uprooted)
(via homesteadilee)
Any material components needed for this one, or is it focus+intent+practice? I mean, I can look up the traditional components of Russian Folk Magick, but I figured I’d ask, before delving.
(via wolvensnothere)
I wish I knew. Alas I’m not familiar with Russian folk magic to the degree that I could tell. Maybe OP…?
(via homesteadilee)
This looks like knot magic. Which would mean having a piece of thread or cord long enough to tie five knots in. You would traditionally start in the middle of the cord, then move to the rightmost , then the leftmost knot, then inbetwee (back and forth) working toward the middle. These usually come in odd numbers (3, 5, 7, 9…etc.) I do not know if Russian magic is different from the usual English stuff, but that’s how it’s done in England.
(via rootandrock)
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