Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time. — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
“If on thoughts of death we are fed, Thus, a coffin, became my bed.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“But as I sat in that bed, the book in my hands, the city outside silent, I had reason to feel as… — Ray Russell Copy Share Image
“The beauty of a woman is that no two are the same. They are all different. It follows then that to be… — Shane K.P. O'Neill Copy Share Image
I never got too specialized but did like the Southern Gothic writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
“He breathed in hard. The stench of blood filled his lungs. Only now for the first time could he truly appreciate it.” — Shane K.P. O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Bodies lay strewn all around. Turkish and Wallachian warriors caught up in the intimate indiscriminate embrace of death.” — Shane K.P. O'Neill Copy Share Image
...Tunstell was not what one could describe as call subtle. His flaming red hair bobbed up with each pointed and articulated footstep… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
“Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive –” — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“In starlit nights I saw you, So cruelly you kissed me. Your lips a magic world, Your sky all hung with jewels.… — Echo and the Bunnymen Copy Share Image
“And Mother, I love her dearly, but she flies into a panic whenever I mention women’s rights. As she sees it, it… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“It is a very genuine admiration, that with which persons too shy or too awkward to take a due part in the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“He speaks in that strange sports talk, telling me about the start of the new season and asks if I follow baseball.… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Some masks are worn to hide weakness. Gabriel had worn that kind for years— a lowered gaze, a tired back, a silence… — Valon G Copy Share Image
“Buttresses were one of the prime structural features of Gothic architecture: by accommodating the thrust of the vaults transferred to them from… — Ross King Copy Share Image
What I like about narrative in general is when there is some incongruity between the form and content. Let's say, mixing up… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
My job on 'Dark Shadows' was to make it fun and funny, first and foremost. It can still be dark and it… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
“So Penn just reads, and he just reads for a good long time. By the time he has come to the point… — Alex Ankarr Copy Share Image
“The reflection was that of a putrefying corpse. By some trick of the light, her face seemed sallow and slipping, the patches… — Hazel Butler Copy Share Image
“Inevitably, his vision verged toward the fantastic; he published a scattering of stories - most included in this volume - which appeared… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
“It was a fact that had become the focus of my entire life, a whisper in my heartbeat, a permanent, insidious presence… — Hazel Butler Copy Share Image
“I imagined her poised, a humerus in one hand, a toothbrush in the other, as she gently brushed away the last remnants… — Hazel Butler Copy Share Image
“But there was nothing. No village or town as far as her eyes could strain. Nowhere for her saviours to come from… — Craig Hallam Copy Share Image
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor. — John McGahern Copy Share Image
Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Yet here apparently on this stifling summer afternoon was the eye of Mr. Flay at the outer keyhole of the Hall of… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“I have learned one lesson in all this and I will share it knowing it will do no one any good. The… — James Pratt Copy Share Image
Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The gothic reminds us that we are mainly driven by our passions; the Gothic deals in illicit desires, in what is prohibited… — David Punter Copy Share Image
It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the… — William Mackergo Taylor Copy Share Image
I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time Karen saw somebody nobody else could see. She thought to ask an old man: who were you? Once… — Nicholaus Patnaude Copy Share Image
In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written. — Jeff Feuerzeig Copy Share Image
“The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
I always am in a role, lovely for you, for them even for myself. Yeah... Even when Im alone, I am still… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She loved the cemetery because it was quiet and beautiful. Grown-ups argued so much when they were alive. No one argued when… — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
Junior high is so much worse than high school because at least in high school different is more accepted, celebrated actually: all… — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
