Slut For Dark Academia

Antonio Canova gallery extension (1957) — Carlo Scarpa

“On leaving home I was able to fabricate a new and far more satisfying history.”

“I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.”

“I don’t think I can explain the despair my surroundings inspired in me.”

“The great romantics are often failed classicists.”

“But isn’t it always pain that often makes us most aware of self?”

“All she lacks is a mother’s firm hand, but still, for my money, she’s what you call a bramble rose.”

“It’s beautiful here, but the morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable.”

“And always, always that same toast. Live forever.”

“She was a living reverie for me: the mere sight of her sparked an almost infinite range of fantasy, from Greek to Gothic, from vulgar to divine.”

“My life, which before had been only solitary and miserable. Became unbearable.”

“Time is something which defies spring and winter, birth and decay, the good and the bad, and absolutely indestructible. Duality ceases to exist; “

“We’d all been really, truly out of our minds. And it may be a superhuman effort to loose oneself so completely, but that’s nothing compared to the effort of getting oneself back again.”

“She was still a girl, a slight lovely girl who ate chocolates, a girl who’s hair smelt like hyacinth and who’s scarves fluttered jauntily in the breeze.”

“We’d done our errands, not to mention an awful lot of cocaine in the parking lot of Burger King.”

“I suppose it would be interesting to say that at this point I felt torn in some way, grappled with the moral implications of each courses available to me. But I don’t recall experiencing anything of a sort.”

Masterpost of Free Gothic Literature & Theory

Classics Vathek by William Beckford Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë The Woman in White  & The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Monk by Matthew Lewis The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin The Vampyre; a Tale by John Polidori Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Dracula by Bram Stoker The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Short Stories and Poems An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience by William Blake The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Pre-Gothic Beowulf The Divine Comedy  by Dante Alighieri A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Paradise Lost by John Milton Macbeth by William Shakespeare Oedipus, King of Thebes by Sophocles The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

Gothic-Adjacent Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood Jane Eyre & Villette by Charlotte Brontë Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems by Coleridge and Wordsworth The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens The Idiot & Demons (The Possessed) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas Moby-Dick by Herman Melville The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

Historical Theory and Background The French Revolution of 1789 by John S. C. Abbott Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. Bradley The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance by Edith Birkhead On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle Demonology and Devil-Lore by Moncure Daniel Conway Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism by Inman and Newton On Liberty by John Stuart Mill The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Feminism in Greek Literature from Homer to Aristotle by Frederick Wright

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