Welcome to A Dark Stormy Night; Gothic Reads!

This blog is about the Gothic Literature genre and for all those who love to read stories about things that go bump in the night!

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It was a dark and stormy night...the old English castle brooded on the moors as it kept centuries old secrets...Do you love Gothic Literature? Ghost Stories? Are you intrigued by Castles and secret passages, Poe and HP Lovecraft. Have you read the Yellow Wallpaper? Do you have a crazy relative who lives in the attic or the old family manor, like in Jane Eyre? Does Catherine from Wuthering Heights haunt you too? Did you love reading Victoria Holt books in junior high?...Then this page is for you. I'd like to share my reading experiences and research about Gothic literature with you and I would love it if you shared your experiences, poems, photos and things related to Gothic literature with me and the new "Dark and Stormy Night" community.

Statuary at Glamis Castle Scotland

Glamis Castle Scotland

"Hence, too, might be drawn a weighty lesson from the little-regarded truth, that the act of the passing generation is the germ which may and must produce good or evil fruit in in a far-distant time; that, together with the seed of the merely temporary crop, which mortals term expediency, they inevitably sow the acorns of a more enduring growth, which may darkly overshadow their posterity." (From "The House of the Seven Gables" by Nathaniel Hawthorne) 


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 Building a Mystery by Sarah McLaughlin