gothic fiction

  • Back to School, with Dark Academia

    Back to School, with Dark Academia

    If you’re anything like me, when September rolls around, you wind up lost in nostalgia for school. It’s hard to forget the excitement of new school supplies and getting to see friends you haven’t seen all summer. Combine that with a lack of adult responsibilities and the time to learn new stuff all day? It’s… Continue reading

  • Seattle Rep’s THE WOMAN IN BLACK: Beyond the Theater

    Seattle Repertory Theatre presents THE WOMAN IN BLACK adapted by Stephen Mallatratt from the novel by Susan Hill from February 22 to March 24, 2019. The basis for the play, Hill’s novel, is a chilling gothic ghost story set in the remote British moors featuring a solicitor who comes to settle the affairs of a… Continue reading

  • A Foray into Gothic Fiction

    Reading Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier in 7th grade was a formative moment for me: I learned the vocabulary word sepulchre; I was deliciously creeped out. It wasn’t until this year, though, that I realized Rebecca was part of a larger type of fiction that I really, consistently enjoy: Gothic fiction. The good news for… Continue reading

  • Page to Screen: My Cousin Rachel.

    It was my idea, after all. Lately as we’ve seen readers and filmgoers gobbling up great twisty psychological suspense such as Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, I kept thinking they should make a fresh version Daphne Du Maurier’s classic tale of the devious anti-heroine known as My Cousin Rachel. Sixty-five years after its original… Continue reading

  • The New Gothic Novel

    In the 1970s “gothic” fiction book covers featured a girl in a diaphanous gown running away from a castle/mansion at night — during a storm. Perhaps Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca is the most famous of the older gothic novels. In this classic story the “new” Mrs. de Winter cannot overcome the feeling that she’s not… Continue reading