As we head into spooky season, what gothic things do you especially enjoy - films, books, fashions, buildings? Let your inner goth out.
I'll start;
The John Rylands' Library building.
Frankenstein starring Boris Karloff. |
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Frankenstein the book. I have a massive thing for Mary Shelly & her life also.
Buildings, churches, mausoleums, old sanitariums. Graveyards.
I love the Victorian gothic styles. Lace & corsets. A million buttons & laces on everything from a show or a stocking to a glove.
Skulls & taxidermy. Making art from the macabre.
I love gothic |
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As well as lots of other loves, for me it's the book Bram Stoker's- Dracula, Gaston leroux - the phantom of the opera and yes Mary Shelly Frankenstein. Also Elizabeth Kostova - The historian. I love the fact the spooky season makes a lot of the cool stuff more accessible, but it does bring out the tacky plastic fantastic £1 stuff too :D |
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"Frankenstein the book. I have a massive thing for Mary Shelly & her life also.
Buildings, churches, mausoleums, old sanitariums. Graveyards.
I love the Victorian gothic styles. Lace & corsets. A million buttons & laces on everything from a show or a stocking to a glove.
Skulls & taxidermy. Making art from the macabre.
I love gothic "
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Marsh's library in Dublin. I love the feeling there.
Siouxie and the banshees - juju is one of my favourite goth albums but The Cures - Disintegration wins hands-down for me.
Edgar Allen Poe and Stokers Dracular for some light reading is good.
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"Marsh's library in Dublin. I love the feeling there.
Siouxie and the banshees - juju is one of my favourite goth albums but The Cures - Disintegration wins hands-down for me.
Edgar Allen Poe and Stokers Dracular for some light reading is good.
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Siouxie was ridiculously hot back in the day. |
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By *avinaTVTV/TS
over a year ago
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Cologne Cathedral...
Moonlit walks in graveyards...
Victoriana, corsetry and lace...
Leather jackets and boots...
Candles...
Incense...
Snow in woods on a moonlit night...
The unbearable anguish of a soulmate's loss...
...Goth! What's that all about?
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"As we head into spooky season, what gothic things do you especially enjoy - films, books, fashions, buildings? Let your inner goth out.
I'll start;
The John Rylands' Library building.
Frankenstein starring Boris Karloff. "
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By *ooBulMan
over a year ago
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The cult (I said "THE CULT")- She Sells Sanctuary. Love his little Michael Flatley jig at the beginning. LOL!
Watson Fothergill - you can't get more Gothic than that geezer. You can't beat a good Gothic arch.... His gargoyles are to die for  
The Munsters.
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I'm back on a little gothic kick. Last night I watched an episode of a 70s series called Haunted - the episode is called The Ferryman and stars Jeremy Brett as a writer who has a huge success with a ghost story. He gets annoyed at the assumption that he must be a believer in the supernatural but when he and his wife find themselves in an Inn full of unlikely echoes of his novel he begins to question...
I'm also working through an anthology series from the same period called Supernatural - the idea is that there is a club you can only join if you have an experience to share that chills the blood of the existing members. Personally I find each episode a little slow and stage-y which is a shame as the casts are excellent but if you love the gothic it might well be worth a watch as your mileage may vary. |
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"There's no end of 70s telly gothic folk horror on Youtube  "
There was an article published in a newspaper the other day about what a shame it is that there's so little weird TV anymore compared to the 70s and 80s. And it's true - I don't mean out-and-out horror or sci-fi (there's loads of that around, especially on streamers) but those bizarre series that fall between the genres, full of memorable images but low on intelligibility And so much of it was for kids!
I watched one called Artemis 81 the other day which involved a classical composer who refused to play a particular piece, an obsessive writer, an alien planet, a strange dystopian city and Sting. I honestly have almost no idea what it was about but I love the fact that it was made as part of mainstream British television when there were only 3 television channels. |
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"I discovered the John Ryland Library when I was last in Manchester... just stunning !"
One of my favourite buildings! I visit it every so often, even if there's no exhibition on there that I'm interested in, just because I love being in there. |
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"I discovered the John Ryland Library when I was last in Manchester... just stunning !
One of my favourite buildings! I visit it every so often, even if there's no exhibition on there that I'm interested in, just because I love being in there."
It's wonderful.. |
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