demian

Vivaldi’s Ercole sul Termodonte, dir. John Pascoe (Festival di Spoleto, 2006) (x)

from Paul Carroll's 1963 review of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, quoted by Hattenhauer in Shirley Jackson’s American Gothic

— Angela Carter, from “Flesh and the Mirror,” Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories

barthes, a lover’s discourse

so "concrete vampirism" is just what it sounds like, that is, the act of drinking another person's blood. for the record, clinical vampirism, despite the term, is not recognized as a diagnosis in the DSM (this isn't me recognizing the DSM as any kind of authority but clearing up that the word clinical might be a little misleading).

women have always wanted to fuck the beast

Nina Auerbach, excerpt of Our Vampires, Ourselves

Article on Gothic Romance and interview with Guillermo Del Toro from Fortean Times magazine February 2016 .

Esther Sarto

Jupiter et Sémélé / Jupiter and Semele (details) – Gustave Moreau (1894-1895)

from donna tartt's afterword for we have always lived in the castle

Published by Popular Library, 1970s

source

Jane Eyre (1943) dir. Robert Stevenson

The Death of Sappho (1896) by Charles Amable Lenoir (French, 1860 – 1926), oil on canvas, 69 x 38 cm (approx. 27.2 x 15 in), Private Collection

My selection of  Reiko Shimizu’s Miracle Tarot cards (1994) posted by @animarchive

Apollo! God of the silver bow 🌟