Strawberry Hill House: Home of the Gothic
A blog dedicated to the Romantics and the Gothic. Visit my personal blog at wasalmostleia.tumblr.com
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Batman is a man who is hiding something behind a series of masks. The Joker hides nothing – he is the mask. And the notion that there is nothing behind the mask is ultimately the scariest thing of all.
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Photo reblogged from ☣ Mute The Silence ☣
viα fieldofwax: symbolism in illustration: War Is the Pursuit of Death by Gustave Dore.
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The rhetorical question is this: why must the hero live or sacrifice their life, and why must the villain be incarcerated or be killed? What if, say, both lived and both united? Why follow the same tired and old path walked hundreds of times before?Benjamin Szumsky in “Morbidity of the Soul: An Appreciation of Hannibal”
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Quote reblogged from FFIONWYNMORRISNothing is more painful to the human mind, than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows, and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.‘Frankenstein’, Mary Shelley
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Link reblogged from All Things Romanticism
The Web’s premier guide to Gothic and supernaturalist literature written prior to 1950
This is a fantastic resource for anyone conducting Gothic studies or anyone just generally interested in the Gothic.
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Dante’s Inferno: a guide to hell
So…what you’re saying is, complimenting people lands you in serious shit.
(Source: mf-doom)
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Photoset reblogged from Byron of Rochdale
on dark and stormy nights in June 1816…
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Photoset reblogged from A thousand times I've tempted fate
“Ask yourself my love whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom.”
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Photoset reblogged from UNIVERSAL MONSTERS
