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Favorite Gothic Theme/Plot in a Book/Movie?
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I’m with you in liking the types you mentioned.
Well, I love the Castles/Mansions of course! You have to have that great atmospheric setting and I love it most when they take place in Britain on the Moors or in Cornwall or just the English countryside anyway. I think I also prefer the older setting (1800's) to modern stories but I've read both that I enjoyed. I love it when there is some sort of ghostly legend involved in the story, but I'm not really into the occult themes. In most of my favorite stories the 'legend' is just that and nothing else. It just adds to the mystery and atmosphere. I do love the Governess/Housekeeper theme or when the main heroine inherits the castle with the strange relatives. I'm reading a great one right now like that. I would agree about the 'modern' Gothics. I am not into vampires at all. I've actually found very few new Gothic authors that I like so I tend to mostly read the older books.
Great themes, you guys! I also dearly love the ones that are very detailed in what dresses/gowns they wear and all their meals eaten.
Oh yes! I love all the little details about the clothing and meals as well! Just the descriptions of their day to day activities can be so interesting. I'm reading one now that takes place in the English countryside and there is a huge maze on the grounds and of course, a ghostly legend about a woman who was murdered in the maze and her ghost now haunts it. I love that sort of mystery! :-D
Which book is that, Marilyn? It sounds familiar.
Yes, I like the castles, mansions, graveyards, and the brooding male character; almost sinister...I like the idea of the English or Irish countryside that is hidden away, and as Marilyn mentioned the notion of a ghost or something 'other wordly.'
Marilyn, what is the name of that book you are reading? Sounds deliciously shivery!
The book I am reading is 'The Woman in the Maze' by Maeva Park Dobner. I'm a little over halfway through it and enjoying it very much!
It sounds wonderful, Marilyn; I am going to search for it.
My favorite Gothic plot is when the young bride is brought to her new husband's ancestral manor and is filled with constant foreboding because the mansion is creepy as are most of the inhabitants who will stop at nothing to keep her from knowing their sinister family secrets.
I do love the mansions/castles, but I also love inherited or recently purchased haunted house/farm.My favorite film of this type, and IMOthe most perfect horror film ever made is~ Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark with Kim Darby, not the modern crap remake!
It traumatized a generation of children who watched it when too young,lol!
https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Afraid-Da...
Renee wrote: "My favorite Gothic plot is when the young bride is brought to her new husband's ancestral manor and is filled with constant foreboding because the mansion is creepy as are most of the inhabitants w..."Yes, I agree, Renee!
I also loved the plots about the main character arrives as a Governess or as a Librarian or Secretary and is involved in a ghost story or survives multiple gothic typed murder or being driven insane attempts.
I do not like the modern so-called-gothics involving Twilight shape shifter characters!
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