Born in a graveyard, adopted by sin, I cultivated evil thats living within — Black Sabbath Copy Share Image
I grew up reading a lot of these super weird, genre-bending Southern gothic writers. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“Good evening, you poor little Orphans of a Loveless God. Good evening to you blood sucking fools.” — Paula Heath Copy Share Image
“He was as good as his worst performance; his worst performance was Gothic.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“And so the afternoon stretched on, and Ezbon toasted their imminent defeat to the dregs.” — C.N. Faust Copy Share Image
“He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll.” — A.K. Kuykendall 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
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
“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
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
“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
Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
“Some believe that every library looks like a splendid cemetery of human thoughts and ideas. Could librarians be called grave-diggers? However that… — Lara Biyuts Copy Share Image
Each thing I do, I rush through so I can do something else. In such a way do the days pass---a blend… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldn't be more fun if Bram Stoker… — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
“That Abbie is such a freaking brat who doesn’t know anything! My William is wasting away in that castle and that stuck… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine;… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The same architect who designed the Seattle fair's futuristic Science Center, with its lacy Gothic arches and spires, Minoru Yamasaki, was hired… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“It was now autumn, and I made up my mind to make, before winter set in, an excursion across Normandy, a country… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“They told of dripping stone walls in uninhabited castles and of ivy-clad monastery ruins by moonlight, of locked inner rooms and secret… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
Gargoyles were the complement to saints; Leonardo's caricatures were complementary to his untiring search for ideal beauty. And gargoyles were the expression… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“His room was a sickly dual-tone of crimson and charcoal, like an Untitled Rothko, the colours bleeding into each other horribly and… — Moonshine Noire Copy Share Image
“She used to place her pretty arms about my neck, draw me to her, and laying her cheek to mine, murmur with… — Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
“He had gone again and, emboldened by his first successful trip, had chosen a different sort of world to enter, that of… — Alan Ryan Copy Share Image
“Death begins before birth. I have always found this an odd notion, but were it not for the death of certain cells… — Hazel Butler Copy Share Image
