C.K. Burch's Blog, page 122
October 19, 2015
ellenkushner:
lawrencepubliclibrary:
BOOKS FOR FANS OF CRIMSON...
BOOKS FOR FANS OF CRIMSON PEAK
Best described as a 20th Century Gothic Romance, Guillermo Del Toro’s Crimson Peak follows aspiring aristocratic author Edith Cushing as she falls madly in love with the penniless Thomas Sharpe. Whisked away to his dilapidated estate, Edith soon learns that not all is as it appears to be when ghostly apparitions begin to haunt the corridors of Allerdale Hall. With nightmares lurking around every corner, a house that seeps blood red clay from every orifice, and a spellbinding cast of characters, Crimson Peak is shaping up to be one of the best films of the year. Below are a combination of classic and contemporary Gothic inspired titles that embody a similar atmosphere to Guillermo del Toro’s haunting and phantasmagorical cinematic creation. If you enjoyed the film and want to know what to read next, then this list is a great place to start.
Delia’s Shadow by Jaime Lee Moyer
This House is Haunted by John Boyne
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe
The Silence of Ghosts by Jonathan Aycliffe
The Damned by Andrew Pyper
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Witch of Painted Sorrows by M.J. Rose
Rebecca by Daphne Du MaurierBeware what lies in the halls of Crimson Peak…
And, even if you aren’t the biggest horror fan, there’s always Tom Hiddleston’s charming smile to comfort you if you get too scared.
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Yay, books!!!
winneganfake:
bipper-billdipper:
alexstrazsa:
Just unmute...
Just unmute it.
Adam’s face!!
THIS GIVES ME LIFE.
You need to watch this.
October 18, 2015
First Belgian waffle that I made. Not as pretty, but I’m...
First Belgian waffle that I made. Not as pretty, but I’m working on it.
October 16, 2015
ryagosling:
As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn’t...
As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn’t sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can’t shake, so it’s not phony anymore.
Transgender woman Zella Ziona found killed in Gaithersburg, Maryland
Transgender woman Zella Ziona found killed in Gaithersburg, Maryland
A transgender woman was shot and killed in Gaithersburg, Maryland, on Thursday evening.
MCP onscene of a shooting in 9600 blk of Lost Knife Rd. Adult female w/ gun shot wound to head. Police activity in area updates to follow
— Montgomery Co Police (@mcpnews) October 15, 2015
Ziona was found in an alley between the Montgomery Village Plaza and the Montgomery…
"Kids love black holes the way they love T-Rex. And I think it’s because each of these entities can..."
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Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries (via sonnywortzik)
#THIS IS ACTUALLY A THING
#KIDS BELIEVE IN CONSUMPTION AS THE HIGHEST FORM OF CONTROL
#THAT’S WHY THEY ARE OBSESSED WITH APEX PREDATORS
(via recursivities)
Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on
it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very
hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a
picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, ‘Dear Jim: I loved your card.’
Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, ‘Jim loved your
card so much he ate it.’ That to me was one of the highest compliments
I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice
Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.
— Maurice Sendak
(via aimmyarrowshigh)
