virulent.

“Nostalghia” (1983)

Immoral Tales (1973) | Dir. Walerian Borowczyk

Frankenstein (𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟧)

[With the ghost story] the fictional takes place in the everyday: it takes space, and it is this usurpation of space by the immaterial which is one of the deepest terrors released by the ghost story . . . Ghost stories are to do with the insurrection, not the resurrection of the dead.

By attempting to make visible that which is culturally invisible and which is written out as negation and as death, the fantastic introduces absences. Hence the tendency of fantasy towards non-signification. There can be no adequate linguistic representation of this ‘other’, for it has no place in life, and it is this contradiction which gives rise to the disjunction between signifier and signified which is at the centre of the fantastic. 

Manuscript of Bram Stoker's Dracula playscript (1897)