#gothic-horror — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gothic-horror, aggregated by home.social.
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On April 24, 1931, the Spanish version of Dracula debuted in New York City. Here's some new fan art! . #Dracula #Vampires #GothicHorror #Art #UniversalMonsters
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🖤 Το Mexican Gothic της Silvia Moreno-Garcia είναι μια σύγχρονη γοτθική ιστορία τρόμου με στοιχειωμένο αρχοντικό, οικογενειακά μυστικά και έντονη ατμόσφαιρα. Από @ekdoseisklidarithmos.
Δες την κριτική του βιβλίου στο horrormovies.gr για περισσότερα. 📚
#MexicanGothic #BookReview #GothicHorror #HorrorBooks #HorrorMoviesGR
April 23, 2026 at 04:00PM
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#AuthorSpotlight on debut indie author Laura Clarke Walker, she/they, and her contemporary British Gothic novel COLDHARBOUR.
We dive into the book so you will smash that preorder button!
https://cmrosens.com/2026/04/01/author-spotlight-british-gothic-horror-author-laura-clarke-walker/
#gothichorror #indieauthor #AuthorInterviews #writers #newbooks #indiebooksbeseen
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Currently on the phonograph: "The House Carpenter" (played below by Kelly Joe Phelps), a classic American folk ballad about the dangers of absconding with another man.*
It's better known across the pond as "The Demon Lover" which inspired wonderful #GothicHorror stories (and collections) by both Shirley Jackson and Elizabeth Bowen.
*In British versions the man is, of course, of supernatural origin. Not so in America.
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A new book of #GothicHorror fiction is coming to the neighborhood. #BookSky
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Intro post!! My name is Eilidh and I am a half-Irish art student from Scotland. I like taking photos, drawing, painting, writing and special effects! ꩜ I listen to mostly post-punk, riot grrrl, new wave, gothic rock & hardcore punk music. I love horror, sci-fi, TTRPGs and anything aggressively feminist. I dislike AI, terfs, and billionaires. ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ #gothichorror #ttrpg #sfx #mixedmedia #painting
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Edgar Allan Poe keeps getting buried under bad scholarship and worse adaptations. Poe deserves better than being endlessly resurrected as a gimmick, but documentaries and movies insist on missing the point.
#EdgarAllanPoe #FilmCriticism #LiteraryCriticism #GothicHorror #Adaptation #Poe #ClassicLiterature #Cinema #Horror #MovieReview
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/the-gothic-mirror-historical-reality-and-cinematic-myth-in-the-legacy-of-edgar-allan-poe/ -
My Fiction: The Full List
I’m best known for my eldritch family drama novels, but I am also a multigenre author published with big and small presses, as well as independently published.
If you’re wondering about the range of long and short fiction I have released and available, let me take you through it all! Click on a heading below to jump to that section, so you’re checking out the books you’re interested in, or discovering new content from me that you have yet to read!
I’ve got a lot out, and a lot available!
Pagham-on-Sea Novels
You can grab the trilogy of novels right now; Canelo has reissued the first two, and the third is available wide release (still self-published). You can check out the main series by clicking on the titles of the books, below.
The Crows – Thirteenth – The Day We Ate Grandad
These novels can be read in any order, but the chronological order is displayed above. I have had readers recommend The Day We Ate Grandad as a standalone to Anne Rice tumblr communities, for the washed-up Lestat (eldritch horror edition) similarities. I have had readers begin with Thirteenth, and others with The Crows.
The Crows is Ricky Porter’s story, Thirteenth follows Katy’s coming-of-age drama, and The Day We Ate Grandad is the story of Wes.
Contemporary Novels
Birds of a Feather with bonus holiday short story, First Christmas, is a novel set on a council estate where Carrie is being stalked by her ex-boyfriend, her anxiety is off the charts, and her new best friend has just introduced her to their ex, a self-employed builder/handyman who is the only one in his shady family with a legitimate business. If Guy Ritchie wrote a romcom with asexual rep.
Check it outI wrote this one as an AU for THE CROWS, as a way to reimagine the characters if they had lived without magic and monsters. I really enjoyed the characters as they appear in this novel, which is a standalone, and I may turn it into a series.
Best Friends Bury Bodies is full of melodrama, mysteries, secrets, lies, and murder, with a queer and polyamorous cast.
It’s a love letter to Midsomer Murders, bisexual midlife crises, and second chances. It is a standalone, fast-paced, character-driven novel that I really enjoyed writing and revising, and is my first release of 2026.
Check it outI love murder mysteries, especially MIDSOMER MURDERS, but I’ve always loved the cast of characters they come with more than the murder plot itself in some cases. This is an ode to those side characters, the wild side plots that are uncovered with little follow-up on their wider impact, and the absolutely batshit thngs that happen in the third act.
Gothic Dark Fantasy
Yelen & Yelena is a Gothic Dark Fantasy in a queernormative fantasy world, based on Beauty & the Beast. It features monster sex, aromantic bisexual MCs, rot plague, and a sapphic riff on Orpheus & Eurydice subplot.
Perfect for fans of hopepunk, sporror, dark Gothic fantasy, and monster-loving.
Check it outThis is a standalone novel; I’m not planning on anything that follows up with the characters in this one. I do, however, plan on writing more in this world, and I have a number of other fairytales that I’d like to play with! There will be crossover in terms of locations, history, references, and even a few minor characters. All the stories will be standalones (at least that is the current idea!)
Bone Puppets is a short Dark Fantasy story, originally written in 4 parts as creative responses to a reading challenge (#AScareADay, 2025). The 4 parts were revised and edited into a cohesive story, and its current form.
It’s a tale of sex magic, folk horror, and necromancy, set during an alternative history WWI.
Check it outBone Puppets is only currently available via my Ko-Fi, Itch, and website shops. It is one of my favourite shorts, and I really liked the characters. I think this could also be developed into something longer, but for now, it will remain a standalone short story with a limited release.
Horror
You will find my short story, Along the Xylophone Road, in this collection of body horror tales from Black Hare Press. The collection is curated by Bernardo Villela, and edited by Dean Shawker.
My story is about a revenant, dragging itself along a set of train tracks in a desert, looking for the long-distance lover they never got to meet in person before the end of the world.
Check it outI may look at re-releasing this story when I get my rights back for it, or perhaps submitting it elsewhere as a reprint. I do really like it, so it’s one I will be offering Ko-Fi members, and possibly monthly Newsletter subscribers, too.
The Snow Child is a supernatural horror short story, set in a grieving rural village during WWI. It features changelings, fae, and body horror. We follow 2 POVs; one is an autistic-coded child, Alice, praying for her dead brother’s return and that her father never comes back; the other is a guilt-ridden shepherd, Sol, who pressured his conscientious-objector son onto the front line, where he was killed. Both of them face the strange children who appear in a June blizzard, and both bear responsibility for the children’s arrival.
Check it outI wrote this short story for Books of Horror‘s June Pride book box, and released it later as a standalone. If you’re after a short, grim, grief horror with macabre supernatural elements and body horror, this is the one!
The Sound of Darkness can be found in an anthology, F is for Fear, published by Red Cape Publishing. It has been a featured story on Mike Dark’s YouTube channel, and an Eldritch Girl podcast episode, and can be bought as a standalone short. It’s a creepy tale of a man overcoming his childhood fear of the dark, based upon his supernatural experiences of growing up on the Jubilee Estate, Pagham-on-Sea.
Check it outI wrote this for the prompt ‘Common Fears & Phobias’ for the F is for Fear anthology (2020), and I want to explore this concept further in future Pagham-on-Sea shorts.
Overexposure is a Wes/Charlie short story, from Charlie’s POV. It can be read as a standalone, without any context or knowledge of the wider series.
A tale of addiction and obsessive spirals, in which an award-winning photographer meets a man who cannot be photographed, leading her to extremes.
Check it OutOverexposure was shopped out to a few places before I decided it was best as a standalone addition to the Pagham-on-Sea universe, and published on its own. It’s my most popular short!
Folklore of Pagham-on-Sea Vol. 1 is a collection of flash fiction. All pieces are hyperlocal fictional folklore, set in Pagham-on-Sea. It was featured on Folklore Pod, and I have read excerpts on Romancing the Gothic‘s YouTube Channel. I’ve put it on sale for 99p, and it can be grabbed for free during selected Smashwords sales.
Check it outFolklore of Pagham-on-Sea Vol. 1 was always meant to be one in a series of folklore volumes, and I still intend to do a second volume. It is a very slim, quick, coffee-break read. I’ve got some ideas for more folklore to include!
The Reluctant Husband is a novelette that first appeared in The Uncanny and the Dead, an indie anthology that also featured authors Michelle Tang and Hester Steel. It was then published as a standalone, and featured on Dr Rehaminator’s Twitch stream. It is an epistolary, “dark but not dour” cosmic horror, set in Sussex in the 1930s, and part of the Pagham-on-Sea universe. No prior context or knowledge of the series is required.
Check it outI’m very proud of this novelette, and once I regained the rights, I reissued it as a standalone on wide release. This has all the elements of Gothic Horror as well as Weird Fiction; a creepy old house, occult experiments, plans within plans, and a mysterious entity known as the Watcher…
The Sussex Fretsaw Massacre is a novella which began as a standalone, and is now issued in a collection with short stories from Ricky Porter’s childhood and adolescence. It includes Gerald, a story first published in the hardback anniversary edition of The Crows, and other stories first written for my Ko-Fi members.
Check it OutThe novella has been read as an entry point to the series, and can still be bought as a standalone. Here, you’ll find it at the end of the collection, which is structured in chronological order.
You can find all my Ko-Fi fiction here: cmrosens-ko-fi.carrd.co
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The Lights of Greyfare by Juno Guadalup
”Guadalup weaves a path through the liminal zone between not confirming anything and explaining everything, creating a tale that will appeal to fans of gothic, folk, and cosmic horror.”
More thoughts: https://davidjhiggins.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/the-lights-of-greyfare-by-juno-guadalup/
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Journey with us into Victorian London and experience the unbridled horror of this classic tale of terror, as one actor plays both Doctor Henry Jekyll and his alter ego, Mr Edward Hyde.
https://www.thameplayers.co.uk/events/jekyll-and-hyde
Friday 16th January 2026 at 7:45pm
#jekyllandhyde a tale of #gothichorror #LiveOnStage -
Gothic Horror fans, this looks interesting...
“The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands” is an upcoming gothic horror film by Nathalie Álvarez Mesén, set to be released in 2026.
It is set in the 1860s Pacific Northwest and follows a Native American governess, educated in a Christian mission school, who is hired to teach the two daughters of a British widower. (Alexander Skarsgård plays the widower.)
More about this film:
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#BücherSonntag
Ich lese zurzeit das interessante #Sachbuch "Blutsaugerinnen und Femme Fatales" von Angelika Schoder, das die Vampirfolklore und -literatur beleuchtet, mit speziellem Fokus auf Vampirinnen und in diesem Zusammenhang auch historische Rollenbilder von Frauen untersucht.
Die Autorin ist hier im Fediverse aktiv mit @musermeku (Folgeempfehlung).Das Buch ist nicht mehr überall erhältlich, ich konnte es mir ausleihen.
#Vampir #Vampirin #historisch #Feminismus #GothicHorror #Gothic
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Now watching:
'Frankenstein'
• directed by Guillermo del Toro
• written by Guillermo del Toro, Mary Shelley (Novel)
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• with Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz, Felix Kammerer, Charles Dance, David Bradley, Lars Mikkelsen, Christian Convery.....#frankenstein - #guillermodeltoro - #nowwatching #firstwatch - #cinema #cinemastodon #film #filmastodon #movies #moviesmastodon - #gothichorror - #letterboxd #trakt -
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The Gothic Pantheon wasn’t meant to exist.
Born from hubris, curses, and bad love stories, they became gods.
Dracula, Adam, Cleo, the Wolf, and more — monsters who saved the world by accident.
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Ken and Rob talk about stuff reminded me of this old idea I brainstormed a long time ago. so rewrote it and will submit it as a series of blog articles for your entertainment.https://breadthofpopsanity.blogspot.com/2025/10/gothic-vs-lovecraft-horror-of-all-time.html #GothicHorror #Lovecraft #MonsterPantheon #CosmicGothic #HorrorLore
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It's a personal annual tradition for me to re-watch the gothic romance/horror film "Crimson Peak" by Guillermo del Toro (from 2015).
I did so today, with the lights out, just some tealights burning. I very much enjoyed it.https://www.imdb.com/de/title/tt2554274/
#CrimsonPeak #GuillermoDelToro
#Halloween #gothicRomance #GothicHorror #gothic -
This week I've been mainly reading, no. 263.
Heather Parry's novel Carrion Crow (2025) is a claustrophobic tale of imprisonment & parental betrayal, shaped by madness & Victorian mores. Its a highly structured piece of gothic horror that never lets up & while can hardly be said to be uplifting is a compelling & disturbing read. Not that much happens but what does will make your blood chill.
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🌫️ The woods whisper your name.
But the voice belongs to someone long dead.This is no ordinary ghost story. It wants you.
One of 100+ nightmares in Dark Descent: Whispers From Beyond.
📖 Amazon – https://amzn.eu/d/0wNo5kj
🖤 Dark Holme – https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/category/dark-descent-whispers-from-beyond-anthologies
What setting chills you most—forests, graveyards, or empty houses?
#readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #writingcommunity #darkfiction #gothichorror
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13 𝘿𝒂𝙮𝒔 𝒐𝙛 𝙃𝒂𝙡𝒍𝙤𝒘𝙚𝒆𝙣: "𝑽𝙞𝒚" (1967) 𝑴𝙤𝒗𝙞𝒆 𝑹𝙚𝒗𝙞𝒆𝙬
2025 Theme: Decades of Horror
Director: Konstantin Yershov, Georgi Kropachyov (USSR)#moviereview #halloween #horror #horrormovie #13DaysOfHalloween #viy #soviethorror #KonstantinYershov #GeorgiKropachyov #folkhorror #fantasyhorror #gothichorror #nikolaigogol
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𝟏3 D𝐚y𝐬 𝐨f H𝐚l𝐥o𝐰e𝐞n: "𝐇o𝐮s𝐞 𝐨n H𝐚u𝐧t𝐞d H𝐢l𝐥" (𝟏9𝟓9) 𝐌o𝐯i𝐞 𝐑e𝐯i𝐞w
2025 Theme: Decades of Horror
Director: William Castle#moviereview #halloween #horror #horrormovie #13DaysOfHalloween #houseonhauntedhill #williamcastle #vincentprice #gothichorror #hauntedhouse #murdermystery
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗵𝘂𝗻" 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗶 𝗝𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗴 -
What happens when grief cannot pass, when the dead will not leave us? Apparently a ghastly and emotional read!
#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #fiction #gothichorror #novella
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13 𝘿𝒂𝙮𝒔 𝒐𝙛 𝙃𝒂𝙡𝒍𝙤𝒘𝙚𝒆𝙣: "𝑻𝙝𝒆 𝑺𝙦𝒖𝙖𝒘" 𝙎𝒉𝙤𝒓𝙩 𝙎𝒕𝙤𝒓𝙮 𝙍𝒆𝙫𝒊𝙚𝒘 𝒃𝙮 𝘽𝒓𝙖𝒎 𝑺𝙩𝒐𝙠𝒆𝙧 -
2025 Theme: Decades of Horror
1893, Irelandhttps://youtube.com/shorts/QI04M5CmPME
#shortstoryreview #halloween #horror #horrorstory #13DaysOfHalloween #books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #shortstory #bramstoker #thesquaw #gothichorror
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I am on the last chapter of #MexicanGothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and I think you should read it
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The Bride: Monsters, Murder, and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Dark Vision https://popgeeks.com/the-bride-monsters-murder-and-maggie-gyllenhaals-dark-vision/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TheBride #MaggieGyllenhaal #Frankenstein #GothicHorror #MonsterMovie
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Friday night's oh-so-gothic movie is Castle of Blood (AKA Danza Macabra, 1964) starring the great Barbara Steele.