by leerozelle | Mar 17, 2024 | cosmic horror, the gothic, the weird, weird fiction
H.P. Lovecraft’s “Pickman’s Model” turns dark arts into shock art in this story that inverts ideas found in Poe’s “The Oval Portrait” and Wilde’s DORIAN GRAY. An outcast painter creates monsters in his gallery that are...
by leerozelle | Mar 10, 2024 | ghost stories, the gothic
Alexei Tolstoy’s “Count Cagliostro” masterfully strikes every note as decadent Gothic, class satire, and romantic pastiche. A bad wizard uses elemental forces and physical mediumship to draw a life-sized simulacrum from an oil portrait. So...
by leerozelle | Mar 3, 2024 | horror short stories, the gothic, weird fiction, werewolves
In Hugh Walpole’s queer chimera tale “Tarnhelm,” a young nerd visits his uncles in Faildyke Hall where a malicious monster dog creeps. With his boy-crush, the narrator must bear witness to a yellow-fanged caraway-scented beast. Charmed storytelling from...
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