Strangely, as a Goth, this is my first time reading about Carmilla. I’m drawn to hercharacter, beauty, and infatuation with Laura. I found the first UK version of the film recommended on the list and watched the entire movie. It differed from the story in manyrespects. In the film, Carmilla doesn’t have a mother who …
Like most twins, Delphine and Collette Mercier had always been close. They did everything together. Only now, in their mid-twenties, had they stopped dressing like one another to prove a point that they could think independently of one another, but still, somehow, managed to show up to any given event with similar dresses and hairstyles, …
The Past in the Future. Indeed, the most trivial of past episodes we forget, but then there are the memories where we can still feel the scrape of our knees slamming against the pavement, the grittiness of gravel and powdered bits of broken concrete as if it were happening right now, on repeat, in a …
When I agreed to let Connie stay with me, it was on condition that she wouldn’t get in my way. We both decided she would stay out of my business, and I would stay out of hers. It’s never easy for two grown women to stay together – one queen per hive and all that. …
The British Museum’s Board of Directors quietly arranges an interview with seasoned curator Dr. Sarpy after the exhibit “Unknown Woman – Tomb KV65” vanishes from the Egyptian Exhibition. The artifact, a loan from the Cairo Museum, had been on display in London for nearly twenty years — long enough to blur the line between guest …
He left me behind—my grand père, my papa. I took too long to get ready. Primping and applying foundation uselessly in the sweltering Louisiana heat. This time, he would teach me a lesson. He would finally prove that my mouth was the only thing I ran. I hurried down the hideous green shag-carpeted stairs to …
After my divorce and my grandmother’s death, my little daughter Savannah and I had few options and dollars in finding a place of our own. Depression and medication were like my second and third children. After my grandmother’s death, I inherited my father’s childhood home and my grandmother’s collection of dolls. The collection is famous in …
The attraction to gothic stories for me has always been their ability to transport me back into a world long gone, but some traces persist—the trendy “trad” or traditional wife with her nods to the 1950s prim-and-proper housewife. But there is something sinister behind that smile and the glint of her smart appliances; there’s a …