“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
This was written by Horace Walpole in the 1700’s. Hang on…..1764. It’s said to be the very first “GOTHIC” novel ever. I have a copy but…to me it’s on the shelf with the likes of Dickens and Hardy and Waugh etc. When (LOL) I have an entire month in total isolation, I may finish it […]
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Why don’t people write Gothic Novels like this anymore? Oh. I’m being olde-fashionde and longing for an innocence that is long lost. Heyho! This is a LIKE bloody LIKE crap review of the LIKE Victorian Gothic LIKE genre. Great story though.
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Last night I was caught short aka needed a wee. I left my ipad downloading The Secrets of Pain audiobook by Phil Rickman. I went back to said ipad and found – The Prayer of the Night Shepherd downloaded. TRUE. FACT! OK, said I. Emma Powell narrates. I love her voice. I love this story […]
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Sad to say – I know too much about this Lucy! FACT. 1897. Bram Stoker. GB’s Hidden History Analyses of Vlad, Voivode Drăculești from the House of Basarab. See many previous posts. Lucy the Bloofer Lady who likes sucking on children is my focus today. I’ll start with Sheffield Gothic…as I am NOT a Psychic […]
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This is a kind of Heavy Jon Creek episode. About murder, eugenics, magicians, innocence destroyed and ye olde ladder lean aka Pythagoras. PLOT : Set five years after the previous episode, “Gorgons Wood”, “The Grinning Man” begins by introducing the Gothic mansion Metropolis. Since 1938, a number of visitors staying overnight in the mansion’s attic […]
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From the author Phil Rickman : The publishers wanted a stand-alone ghost story. Which it is. It totally stands alone, just like the earliest novels. Except they didn’t, quite, did they? Characters from previous novels floated in, although it didn’t really matter if you hadn’t read those previous novels. I became a bit superstitious about […]
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Mmmn. I’ve just watched the video below and it makes sense. In Scotland, it is traditional to carry a stone up from the bottom of a hill to place on a cairn at its top. In such a fashion, cairns would grow ever larger. An old Scottish Gaelic blessing is Cuiridh mi clach air do chàrn, “I’ll […]
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What I like about these programmes is not so much the content but the way it is presented. Each episode is like an old-fashion Murder Mystery book. With sub-plots, red herrings, the good, foreshadowing, plots, true lies, the bad, mis-direction, counter-plots, the f-ugly, subtle clues etc etc. :o)
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“THEY/THEM” have – over the past nearly two years – www PUBLICLY called ME Dinosaur/Stalker/Evil/A Need To Study More/Dolphin Sex-Fetishist?/So Hidden that I can’t be found/NO CONTENT/Hopefully the 101th Death in the UK/Don’t like MY ways/Useless/Worthless/Hopeless/Crazy/Mad/et al Mmmmmmmn. Let ME SHOW Y’all the cards that I HOLD? #JupiterDirect? Suck IT up, Phoneys :o)
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Read Jane Eyre? It’s a story of abandonment, abuse, secrets and lies!
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OMG! Who’d’ve thunk that a life time spent reading literature would be SO relevant for ME today? The Fall of the House of Usher Roderick BURIES his TWIN sister ALIVE! LMFAO :o)
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Sometimes I astound myself! Oh. Done that one. This time it’s not a Good thing. How the Fluff did I miss the fact that the gorgeous Phil died in Salisbury? At Odstock Hospital? A place that I was Emergency called to via telephone one night at 3am to pick up a friend and neighbour after […]
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Hidden History Research 