“…my habitual residence was on the blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay, near Dundee…”
—Mary Shelley, introduction to FRANKENSTEIN (1831 edn)
Mary Shelley (1797–1851) was born #OTD, 30 August. Prof Daniel Cook examines why Scotland mattered so much to Mary Shelley, & considers Shelley’s position in the Scottish Gothic tradition
@litstudies
#Scottish #literature #gothic #Frankenstein #FrankensteinDay #MaryShelley
🥳🎉 DARKNESS FOREVER ist heute zwei Wochen alt
Unser 24/7 Gothic Mixtape Radio, welches sehr viele Stile abdeckt. Einfach mal zu verschiedenen Zeiten reinhören und sich in Musik neu verlieben. Habt ein schönes Wochenende 🥳🎉
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🎉 DARKNESS FOREVER is two weeks old today
Our gothic mixtape radio that covers many styles. Just listen to it at different times and fall in love with music all over again. Have a nice weekend 🥳🎉
My fiction is in the new issue of The Kleksograph 
You can give my Gothic short story, Two Dreams, a read here (with apologies for PDF accessibility shortcomings!): https://www.kleksograph.be/ #ShortStories #ShortStory #Gothic #WritersOfMastodon
读过 Cathedral 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
久闻大名且不负盛名的一部作品，一个花了 86 年四五代人才能完成的项目，需要有多大的集体信念感才行。中世纪营造涉及到各种工种，如采石匠、切石匠、雕刻师、水泥匠、泥瓦匠、木匠、铁匠、盖顶匠和玻璃匠，汇集了人类当时知识和技术的精华，叹为观止。
What Influenced Mary Shelley to Write Frankenstein?
Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein is today lauded as the first science fiction novel as well as a seminal work of Gothic horror.
By Lauren Jones
https://www.thecollector.com/mary-shelley-wrote-frankenstein-novel/
Dearest Fediverse,
Just today and tomorrow left where you can get my entire Bandcamp Discography for just €10! 14 albums of danceable dark #indie #rock sometimes #gothic kind of #industrial thumping but also sometimes psychedelic and punky #music. That's a hell of a lot of music.
The price goes back up in 2025!
Have a look at the reviews on Bandcamp!
Https://limneticvillains.bandcamp.com
Let me know what you think! Reposts help a lot. I'm trying to let my art live! It wants an audience. #bandcamp
Thanks!
The Long Shadow of Scottish Gothic
31 July, Glasgow
Tickets £13.44
From ‘Tam o Shanter’ through Jekyll & Hyde to Alasdair Gray & Muriel Spark, the Gothic has a vicelike grip on the Scottish imagination. Dr Valentina Bold & Prof Liam McIlvanney discuss Liam’s new psychological thriller THE GOOD FATHER, the enduring appeal of Scottish Gothic, & our fascination with the dark side
https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/the-long-shadow-of-scottish-gothic-liam-mcilvanney
#Scottish #literature #gothic #RobertBurns #RobertLouisStevenson #AlasdairGray #MurielSpark
Helen Craik (1751–1825), Gothic novelist & friend of Robert Burns, died 200 years ago #OTD, 11 June. Craik published 5 novels but no poetry. In 1919, excerpts of her poems appeared in a newspaper, but the source – a notebook Craik presented to a family friend – disappeared…
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#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #romanticism #poetry #Gothic #WomenWriters #manuscripts
Scottish Scholars & Secrets: Developments of Dark Academia in Edinburgh
24 June, free online
Natasha Anderson finds roots of Dark Academia running through Edinburgh’s gothic literary traditions, in works by Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark, & Ian Rankin.
Part of Reading Scotland from Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz
@litstudies
https://www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scotland/
#Scottish #literature #gothic #DarkAcademia #Edinburgh #RobertLouisStevenson #MurielSpark #IanRankin
Atop The Methodist Church
https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/atop-the-methodist-church-justin-farrimond.html
Perched on a spire at the front of Chepstow Methodist Church sits a seagull. You perhaps wouldn't notice her unless she was pointed out to you. I can't guarantee she'll be there tomorrow, but, you never know.
#PhotoOfTheDay #Architecture #Church #ArtPrint #Photography #Art #Travel #Chepstow #BlackAndWhite #PhotographyLovers #InteriorDesign #Gothic
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James Hogg & Mikhail Bulgakov
In the latest London Review of Books podcast, Marina Warner & Adam Thirlwell look at how James Hogg’s JUSTIFIED SINNER & Bulgakov’s THE MASTER & MARGARITA represent fanaticism, be it Calvinism or Bolshevism, & consider why both writers used the fantastical to test reality
@litstudies
#Scottish #Russian #Soviet #literature #JamesHogg #MikhailBulgakov #gothic #horror #fanaticism #Calvinism #Bolshevism #fantasy
Scottish Scholars & Secrets: Developments of Dark Academia in Edinburgh – from 24 June 2025
Natasha Anderson finds roots of Dark Academia running through Edinburgh’s gothic literary traditions, in works by Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark, & Ian Rankin
@litstudies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahpagiSHK78
#Scottish #literature #gothic #Edinburgh #DarkAcademia #RobertLouisStevenson #MurielSpark #IanRankin
Wolfmond
Mixtapes: HAUNTING HOURS
🎧 https://www.mixcloud.com/wolfmond/playlists/haunting-hours
Meine Mixtapes sind kleine Wundertüten:
Von Outrun über Dark Indie, Post-Punk, New Wave und Alternative 80s bis hin zu Grunge, Dark Ambient oder Dark Folk etc. – alles kann, nichts muss.
Die „HAUNTING HOURS“ sind mein Raum für Experimente – hier verschmelzen auch unbekanntere, seltsame oder vergessene Tracks zu neuen Stimmungen. Ganz ohne Genregrenzen, abseits meiner regulären Sendungen.
