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@tatiana1979
PhD candidate at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. I am researching Patrick McGrath's Gothic Fiction. MLitt in the Gothic Imagination at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Published by Luna Press Publishing. Posts in English and in Spanish.
Quiet Nisse Designs
#FairyTaleTuesday In βBram Stokerβs Draculaβ, Coppola planned every shot carefully,crafting a storyboard with about a thousand images. He made a choppy animated movie out of the drawings,added music, & scenes from Cocteauβs version of βBeauty and the Beastβ cinephiliabeyond.org/dracula/
Illustration for 'The Witchβs Cat' by Hilda Boswell
#MythologyMonday Kikimora is a house spirit from Slavic lore who can be helpful or malevolent depending on the behavior of the homeowner. Stillborn children & miscarriages were thought to become a kikimora as well as a child who died before being baptized. worldhistory.org/Kikimora/
Art-Ivan Bilibin
#InternationalWomenDay 'Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful'
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
LOS ΓNGELES MALOS
Una pequeΓ±a ermita alberga las pinturas mΓ‘s oscuras y desconcertantes del arte espaΓ±ol. Nadie sabe quΓ© representan exactamente, pero algo es seguro: son bastante terrorΓficas.
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Mike Mignola, βHer Spirit Guideβ, ink wash and watercolour, 2026
Out in August! π cup.columbia.edu/book/body-ho... #horror #bodyhorror
My weekend plans
#Want Crimson Peak: The Official Novelization
Valera Lutfullina, Witch
'Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror' (1922) premiered #OTD in the Marmorsaal of the Berlin Zoological Garden. Guests were asked to dress in Biedermeier costume. Albin Grau was inspired to produce the vampire film after a conversation with a Serbian farmer, who stated that his father had been a vampire.
Emily Moh, Whimsy
Richard Burton on how he had to correct his speech
What an incredible voice he had www.youtube.com/shorts/4og6U... #ShakespeareSunday
This monograph, through a consideration of Gothic states and places, explores the BrontΓ«s' creative work with the genre. The author argues that to read the BrontΓ«s as Gothic poets and novelists is also to read them as post-Romantics. www.uwp.co.uk/book/the-bro...
#FolkloreSunday In Bulgarian folklore, Baba Marta (Grandma March) is portrayed as a feisty & temperamental old lady in a bad mood with her brothers, January & February. On March 1st she does her pre-spring cleaning & shakes out her mattress. openbulgaria.org/post/legends...
Art by Milena Dimova
'Warm Gaze,' by C.M.Duffy
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Publicidad para vender un libro en preventa.
PodΓ©is ver todo el proyecto en
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Kawanabe KyΕsai, Skeleton Wearing a Top Hat Playing the Shamisen for a Small Dancing YΕkai, 1871-78
Teapot and Mouse Earrings
Happy Twin Peaks Day!!
#MythologyMonday Draculaβs teeth are so famous that the term is even used to describe a form of sweet. Yet the vampires of old European folklore were not recognised by their teeth. This feature seems to have arrived with fiction enhanced by visual representation. www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
The Fascinating History of Tarot Card Decks: From the Renaissance to the Modern Day
'The Midnight Passage,' by Annie Stegg Gerard
Semele, oil painting by Jannik Senium
En esta antologΓa se recogen los mejores relatos sobre mujeres vampiro que se han escrito. Desde "Carmilla" de Sheridan Le Fanu hasta "Roja como la sangre" de Tanith Lee, pasando por Stephen King, Francis Marion Crawford y la Γ©poca dorada de Weird Tales. www.valdemar.com/libro/vampir...
Anna Celestini - Medusa (2019)
#FairyTaleTuesday Francisco de Goya, 'The Burial of the Sardine'