i like sea slugs

these are gonna be fast and loose with the term gothic so no one get on my ass about exact definitions also sorry that these are kinda basic but yeahhh

assuming if you’re gonna read mathilda then you’ve probably already read frankenstein but if not. well not everyone will agree with me but mathilda is not the only parent child incest book shelley ever wrote

wuthering heights of course this is like thee crazy toxic codependent relationship book yes there’s pseudo and potentially real incest and yes there’s based goated forced continuation of the cycle of abuse

we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson is a book I’m always surprised isn’t bigger on here, I shudder to use the word “feral” but it must be said that the main character is a feral autistic girl who runs around the woods and doesn’t bathe and sees herself as the knight protecting her agoraphobic shut-in fairy princess older sister from the townsfolk who hate them for suspected family murder. no explicit incest but I think a reading that way is possible

still not able to shut up about cien años de soledad by gabriel garcía márquez which I read the other week but it’s got so many gothic elements like incest and ghosts and cycles and the house as a character and actual genuine doomed by the narrative

google is telling me that stephen king counts so I’ll just say that if you haven’t read the book version of the shining I really think it’s king’s best. like I could say some things about stevie king we have a complicated relationship but the shining is just really that good imo. better than the movie to me

interview with the vampire I had a way different impression of it going in cuz I’d hear all these crazy things that happen later on in the series, but then I read it and was like oh this is a story about emotional incest and depression and the characters just are also vampires

flowers in the attic I also had a different vague impression of based on how it’s memed in pop culture but like. it’s good. being eaten alive by a house and your family….. like it’s good

Title: Ball gown

Designer: Madame Elise

Date: late 1870s

Culture: British

Dress of cotton muslin, gilded metal thread and Indian jewel beetles (sternocera aeqisignata), Britain, 1868-9

Panna a netvor (Beauty and the Beast) (1979)

The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

The Company of Wolves (1984)

Rusalochka (The Little Mermaid) (1976)

A Song of the Forest: Mavka (1983)

The Red Shoes (1948)

Ever After (1998)

Morozko (Jack Frost) (1964)

Labyrinth (1986)

Unusual color combinations are one of my favorite things to stumble upon, and the 1890s are fabulous for finding them. Deep olive green velvet, black and yellow satin, and floral sprays combine with leg of mutton sleeves and ruffles, ruffles, ruffles!

This dress dates from 1895 and is French, but was imported to the US.

By the time the 1890s hit, we lose the density of the bustle era and opt instead for massive flounces and the rebirth of voluminous sleeves. This dress isn't listed as a mourning gown, but it's got a lot of the elements one looks for in that sort of fashion, including jet beads which were generally reserved for mourning wear.

This gown would definitely be at home in Crimson Peak!