As you may have noticed, I have a book coming out. My novel Hungry Rats will be published on September 1st. This is just a quick note to readers that while I will be using this blog to help promote the book — which has plenty of the Gothic (Radcliffean and Lewisian) in it — I will also be posting more generally Gothic-themed content for the same time.… Read the rest
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This novel did begin with a body of sorts, but it happened in August 2003. … Read the rest
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Last week, in our discussion of Gothic Heroines and Natural Selection, Flawed Events posted about Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey as referring to Ann Radcliffe. Austen pokes fun at Radcliffe, and at Gothic fiction in general, throughout Northanger Abbey. It’s a great book, funny and piquant, but I thought it might be nice to include for once passage of Radcliffe’s that shows what a powerful writer she really could be, and why she influenced writers from Keats to Hugo.… Read the rest
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On Tuesday, when I posted an entry on the propensity of Ann Radcliffe heroines to faint at the most inopportune moments, I got about 15 replies. Of course, only one of them was on this blog: the rest were scattered about Facebook and Twitter (which is what comes of social media cross-promotion, I suppose!),… Read the rest
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… Read the restA voice called her, but she was gone beyond its reach, for she had sunk senseless upon the ground: it was long before she revived, when she did, she found herself in the arms of a stranger, and made an effort to disengage herself.
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Picture by Michael Gäbler, from Grand Teton National Park.
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