#the lady of the house of love

[yvain]

Stoker (2013) dir. Park Chan-wook and "The Lady of the House of Love" by Angela Carter

#stoker #mia wasikowska #park chan wook #vampires #horror #angela carter #gothic literature #comparatives #the lady of the house of love #ignore the fact that i've already made this exact post with pearl #*

[flowerytale]

Angela Carter, from “The Lady of the House of Love”, The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories

#angela carter #the bloody chamber & other stories #the lady of the house of love #short stories #lit #literature #typo #*

[derangedrhythms]

I will vanish in the morning light; I was only an invention of darkness. 

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; from ‘The Lady of the House of Love’

#angela carter #the bloody chamber and other stories #the lady of the house of love #prose #darkness

[petaltexturedskies]

The walls of her bedroom are hung with black satin, embroidered with tears of pearl.

Angela Carter, from The Lady of the House of Love from in “The Bloody Chamber”

#angela carter #the bloody chamber #the lady of the house of love

[words-and-coffee]

I will vanish in the morning light; I was only an invention of darkness. 

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; from The Lady of the House of Love

#Angela Carter #The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories #quote #quotes #lit #literature #book #book quote #book quoites #The Lady of the House of Love #lit quote #lit quotes #literature quote #literature quotes

[asteria-of-the-stars]

“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes…”

- Angela Carter, The Lady of the House of Love (1979), featured in her The Bloody Chamber.

#Angela Carter #The Bloody Chamber #The Lady of the House of Love #haunting #ghosts #to be haunted #haunted #gothic

[stheresya]

Forgive me, I'm not myself. You have no idea how I fight this thing. But it is... adamantine.

Penny Dreadful (2014-2016) // The Lady of the House of Love - Angela Carter

#vanessa ives #penny dreadful #the lady of the house of love #the bloody chamber and other stories #angela carter #parallels #web weaving #mine own

[knightsickness]

ik i overuse lady of the house of love w criston and rhaenyra but this really is THE outsider horrified by targ customs shit no one else is doing it like this

#also obviously his deluded perception of her as a princess for him to save from her monstrous family+own monstrousness. goes without saying #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #house of the dragon #hotd #criston cole #rhaenyra targaryen #the lady of the house of love

[mountainmagpie]

The Lady of the House of Love, Angela Carter

#angela carter #the lady of the house of love #vampire #vampirism #literature #vampirism in literature

[twinpeaksfireblogwithme]

the lady of the house of love, angela carter / a game of thrones & a storm of swords, george rr martin

#asoiaf #the lady of the house of love #targaryen gothic #op

[yvain]

I do not mean to hurt you. I shall wait for you in my bride's dress in the dark.

Angela Carter, “The Lady of the House of Love”

Wedding Dresses in Horror

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016) • Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994) • Ready or Not (2019) • Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) • Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971)

#horror #ready or not #bram stoker’s dracula #mary shelley’s frankenstein #let’s scare jessica to death #the lady of the house of love #i am the pretty thing that lives in the house #comparatives #*

[derangedrhythms]

She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes […]

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories;from ‘The Lady of the House of Love’

#angela carter #the bloody chamber and other stories #the lady of the house of love #prose #fragments #hauntings

[stromuprisahat]

She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. ...

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories- The Lady of the House of Love (Angela Carter)

#The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories #The Lady of the House of Love #Angela Carter #books #quotes #V

[words-and-coffee]

Her hair falls down like tears

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories: The Lady of the House of Love

#Angela Carter #The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories #quote #quotes #lit #literature #book #book quote #book quotes #the lady of the house of love

[asteria-of-the-stars]

“All day, she lies in her coffin in her négligé of blood-stained lace.”

- Angela Carter, The Lady of the House of Love (1979), featured in her The Bloody Chamber.

#Angela Carter #the bloody chamber #the lady of the house of love #vampirism #vampire #gothic

[stcantarella]

The Lady of the House of Love - Angela Carter

#230 #the lady of the house of love #angela carter