gothic

Oh yes, I am treading there.  Creeping down the woebegone highways and byways of gothic-style horror this Halloween.  What could be more appropriate, methinks, than to honor that dark and dismal genre with some chicken-scratches of my own?  It isn't all black lipstick and fingernails, you know.  Its origins were far more refined and exquisitely wrought by masterful scribes such as Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Henry James, Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy . .

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