Darkness Quote by Mark Fisher

“Our fascination with the gothic peaks in times of anxiety, panic, and upheaval. The Victorian gothic revival of the 1890s was stoked by scientific,…

— Carina Chocano

Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Certain kinds of people, and a fortiori certain kinds of writers, have always experienced the world around them in the Gothic manner, I’m almost…

— Thomas Ligotti

One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

In a single lifetime, roughly from 1865 to 1930, one finds the pioneering and patterning works of modern fantasy, science fiction, children's literature and…

— Michael Dirda

I'm not interested in gothic storytelling or the horrific for its own sake. I'm always interested in it as a way of getting at…

— Scott Derrickson

“You sometimes hear people say, with a certain pride in their clerical resistance to the myth, that the nineteenth century really ended not in…

— Frank Kermode

“In Gothic fiction, characters must contend with the dead, with active hauntings or with hallucinations of hauntings, as well as whatever other trying circumstances…

— Brenda Walker

I grew up reading a lot of these super weird, genre-bending Southern gothic writers.

— Karen Russell

“In the attempt to find the just measure of horror and terror, I came upon the writing of Carole Gill whose work revealed a…

— Carole Gill

In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel, architecture were…

— Amor Towles

Gothic in its purest sense is actually a very powerful, twisted genre, but the way it was being used by by journalists - 'goff'…

— Siouxsie Sioux