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magickpumpkin · 6 months

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Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas

This book was so incredibly good! When I began reading this book, I was expecting something that focused on just the horror aspect and the interesting take on the vampire lore. However, with a wonderful surprise, it drew you into the romance between Nena and Néstor - the hurt, the grief, the miscommunication, the slow burn, the coming to terms with the mistakes they have made in the past and how they won't fall to them again. How they are tied to a love of their land and devotion to their family but in the end find home within each other.

This amazing story brings these two characters together to fight for each other, their people, and their land, all while trying to also fight for the future they have dreamed about. The bloodthirsty vampires are only the start of it.

5/5

#booklr #books #books and reading #5 out of 5 #5/5 #vampires #gothic reads #horror books #horror #vampire books #books books books #vampires of el norte #isabel cañas #friends to lovers #slow burn #romance book review #book review

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ash-and-books · 2 years

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Belladonna by @authoradalyngrace comes out August 30th and I’m already counting down the seconds until it’s here. This is a stunning gothic romance with a fantastic murder mystery! It’s definitely one of my favorite reads this year 🖤☕️💀 check out this fun aesthetic moodboard I made to give you just a taste of this book 📖

#bookish #belladonna #adalyn grace #gothic reads #ya reads #ya book #bookstagram #book #belladonna by adalyn grace #gothic romance

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mariasbookishcorner · 1 month

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(via The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafón – Book Review)

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cordspaghetti · 3 months

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got thinking about gerard way tour outfit predictions that never came 2 be… bloody wedding dress…

#they’ve got legs and a slit throat!#this is one i believed 2 be totally out of the question bc it would be too bulky restrictive etc #but then i was doing my research and i discovered The 60s Wedding Mini Dress and i was like oh my god she would #kind of a mod vibe but w more gothic detail so it still reads as bridal out of context yk yk. perhaps #mcr #gerard way #digital art #x

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aussie-bookworm · 1 year

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THE KING IS BACK

#itsallmine #Dracula #dracula daily #jonathan harker #I’m so excited omg he’s back #time to read bram stokers classic gothic novel again #aaaaaaaa #someone has probably already made this joke but idc #patch notes: pictures now have alt text

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bonesashesglass · 2 months

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Palestine mention in Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo, 1887

Israel will never be able to erase Palestine. It’s woven into our history, our stories. They say you can’t kill a revolution, you can’t erase the truth of its existence either.

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linktoo-doodles · 4 months

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ethel cain studies

#ethel cain #my art #Linktoo art #I gotta read up on southern gothic literature tbh

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withsomejam · 1 year

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A Day in Whitby

As the autumnal equinox neared, I took a trip to the north east of England to visit some friends for a well-deserved break and while I was at it -I was desperate to spend a day exploring Whitby. I’ve spent quite some time there before, including trying to explore it’s cobbled lanes in my wheelchair –not ideal. This time I wanted to take it slow and try to discover more; and maybe things I haven’t…

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#2022 #Books #Bookshop #Bram Stoker #Dark Fiction #Dark Reads #Days Out #Dracula #Gothic Fiction #Gothic Place #Gothic Reads #Harbour.#Lifestyle #Places #Whitby

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sictransitgloriamvndi · 29 days

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#art #etching #illustration #newspaper #british art #london #the illustrated london news #architecture #gothic #raven #ravens #samuel read

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lone-nyctophile · 1 year

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Confide in me, and watch how I turn your every sorrow into incandescent poetry.

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mr-rochester-of-thornfield · 1 year

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You’re in her DMs, I’m screaming her name across the moors and she somehow hears me. We’re not the same.

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magickpumpkin · 1 year

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Just like Home | Sarah Gailey

Vera is asked by her dying mother to return to her childhood home, which has gained its notoriety and fame from her father, who was found to be a serial killer. However, while she is there trying to deal with her cold mother's emotions, she also has to deal with the artist renting the guest house out back. While she receives the cold shoulder from her mother, she gets to witness her mother showering this artist with favorable attention. And then has to deal with the artist annoying her - wanting to see the home through her eyes as a child who grew up with a serial killer father.

But there is something else that is happening in the darkness… Vera thinks it might only be caused by her stress of traveling and not getting enough sleep due to her nightmares, but what if it is something more? What is moving and whispering in the house?

The perspective moves from the present to the childhood of Vera Crowder and how she reflects on the things that happened, all the things that led up to that eventful night. How was it like having a father who killed people but was kind and loving to her? How does one grow up loving the person whom everyone else hates?

It has been a long time since a book really creeped me out. But, once I got to a specific section of the book, I could not put it down! Some peeps say that this is a slow-burn book, and I get that, but I think it holds a purpose because once you get to a particular chapter, there will be so many twists and turns! Some of them you will see coming, and others that I think are well hidden in the book.

I would say that the writing style - which is super descriptive - can take some time to get used to. But once you do, it is smooth sailing, and things really take off. So if you are looking for a haunted house story with mystery and a touch of horror and are interested in topics that deal with serial killers, this would be a book I would recommend!

5/5 Stars

Book TW: Murder, Body Horror, Gore, Emotional Abuse, Child Abuse, Death of a parent

#bookworm #books #bookstagram #book #horror #horror stories #haunted house #just like home #library finds #book reviews #october reads #pink books #thriller #thriller book #mystery book #mystery #gothic reads

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ash-and-books · 2 years

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Happy Release Day to Belladonna by Adalyn Grace! This book has been one of my favorite reads this year! It’s got : gothic murder mystery, romance, mysterious family, magic, and so much more. I can’t wait for the sequel and I have been so happy to have gotten to be part of her street team for this book! (This was the outfit I wore to her Mysterious Galaxy event tonight!) Go check bout my instagram for more of my Belladonna content ( and more bookish content) @ashley_dang096

#book review #bookish #belladonna #belladonna by adalyn grace #gothic reads #gothic romance #gothic book #bookstagram #gothic aesthetic

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mayasynth · 4 months

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My beautiful unhinged daughter, Mary Elizabeth Frankenstein <3 I know this was not at all how the scene actually went, but humour me

(Pssssst everyone please read Our Hideous Progeny, pleaseee 🙏)

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yvain · 3 months

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Women writers of the Victorian era regarded the fairy tale as a dormant literature of their own. When Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre hears hoofbeats approaching her in the dark, ice-covered Hay Lane, "memories of nursery stories" immediately flood her mind, especially the recollection of "a North-of-England" monster capable of assuming several bestial forms. But the beastly apparition Jane expects turns out to be Rochester, the "master" whom she promptly causes to fall off his horse and who will eventually become her thrall. Rochester himself soon shows his own conversance with, and respect for, powers he associates with the magical women of traditional fairy tales. "When you came on me in Hay Lane last night," he tells Jane, "I thought unaccountably of fairy tales, and had half a mind to demand whether you had bewitched my horse. I am not sure yet. Who are your parents?" When Jane replies that she is parentless, Rochester endows her with a supernatural ancestry. Surely, he insists, she must have been "waiting for [her] people," the fairies who hold their revels in the moonlight: "Did I break one of your rings, that you spread the damned ice on the causeway?"

Here and elsewhere in Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë takes even more seriously than her two characters do the potency of the female fairy-tale tradition to which she has them refer. Karen E. Rowe, who has so ably written on that tradition, was the first to show how fully saturated Jane Eyre is with patterns drawn from major folktales such as "Cinderella," "Sleeping Beauty," "Blue Beard," and, as a prime analogue for Jane's developing relationship with the homely Rochester, from "Beauty and the Beast," the 1756 Kunstmärchen (or literary fairy tale) adapted and popularized by Madame Le Prince de Beaumont.

Nina Auerbach, Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers

#jane eyre #gothic literature #fairy tales #nina auerbach #charlotte brontë #readings #*

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leafspiritz · 4 months

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sometimes a family is you, your scary girlfriend, her rat-bird-son, and her terrible mangled hell-hound that comes from the depths of her soul 💜

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