Fairytale And Gothic Horror

This book explores the idiosyncratic effects generated as fairytale and gothic horror join, clash or merge in cinema. Identifying long-held traditions that have inspired this topical phenomenon, the book features close analysis of classical through to contemporary films. It begins by tracing fairytale and gothic origins and evolutions, examining the diverse ways these have been embraced and developed by cinema horror. It moves on to investigate films close up, locating fairytale horror, motifs and themes and a distinctively cinematic gothic horror. At the book’s core are recurring concerns including: the boundaries of the human; rational and irrational forces; fears and dreams; ‘the uncanny’ and transitions between the wilds and civilization. While chronology shapes the book, it is thematically driven, with an interest in the cultural and political functions of fairytale and gothic horror, and the levels of transgression or social conformity at the heart of the films.

Her fate is sealed. Her death is inevitable... Carrie Rickard, leaving an abusive relationship back in London, tries to escape her past by throwing herself into her restoration project: Fairwood House, known to locals of Pagham-on-Sea as The Crows. Unable to resist as it whispers to her, Carrie’s obsession only grows when she discovers it was the site of a gruesome unsolved murder. As she digs deeper into the mystery, she awakens dark and dangerous forces. Cue an introduction to her foul-mouthed neighbour, Ricky Porter, who is as obsessed with The Crows as Carrie is, and who has several secrets of his own. Not least of which are what’s really under his hood, and what he’s got in the cellar... A chilling gothic horror novel of haunted houses, eldritch monsters and things that go bump in the night.

Set within a world that’s a magical echo of our own, Porcelain is the story of Child, an urchin, who leaves behind the cold streets of a snowy city when she climbs the high wall into the Porcelain Maker’s garden. The Porcelain Maker discovers Child trespassing but, amused by her audacity, he offers her the chance to stay. He’s a lonely man, kept company only by his alchemically-powered automata, and he and Child form an unlikely friendship. Shut off from the world beyond the wall, Child wants or needs for nothing as the Porcelain Maker heaps affection and luxury upon her, indulging her like a daughter. In return, she can do as she pleases, except for one command, one rule that must never be broken, she must not look behind the workshop door.

DARK FANTASY TO FUEL YOUR IMAGINATION Delve into a Gothic Medieval World with trolls, maidens, mermaids, witches, faeries, dwarves, and gruesome vampires.Inside these pages are "Eight" stories ready to inspire your WILDEST THOUGHTS with hope, love, dark magic, and bloodsucking fun.This treasury includes, Vampir of Shadows, Belle of the Ball, Dark of the Sea, Gothic Lil Faerie, The Grunch Who Stole Winter Solstice, The Black Rose Witch, Red Cold Snow, and Diva of the Mist. Our storiesIn Vampir of Shadows, A young singer becomes immortal, and soon want the world at her fingertips!In Belle of the Ball, she's grown up now and everyone desires to see her bloody-good show!In Dark the Sea, a princess falls from the moon, and becomes a sea creature!In Gothic Lil Faerie, a tiny girl travels to a wonderland of strange creatures, soon realizing that there's no place like home.In The Grunch Who Stole Winter Solstice, A terrible monster has stolen the love of the holiday, and kidnapped a young lads girlfriend. It's up to him to save his beloved and the winter's celebration.In the Black Rose Witch, Svetlana is bullied by all the local children, but soon has her revenge when a wicked woman grants her a mysterious magic cloak.In Red Cold Snow, A young girls loses her parents and is soon taken in by a family of dwarves, but deadly monsters are all about.In Diva of the Mists, Snow and Svetlana with friends confront the mysterious Diva in the Shadows, a deadly vampire who will take no prisoners. Personal Note from MichaelAs a big science fiction, fantasy, and Gothic Fairy Tale & Horror fan, I have been influenced by many great writer's, movies and TV shows.Here's many of my favorites: George R. R. Martin, Brandon Sanderson, David Gemmell, Stephen King, K.F. Breen, L Ron Hubbard, Robert Jordan, Rob Zombie, Jim Butcher, J R. R. Tolkien, and J. K Rowling. Shows and films like Penny Dreadful, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, Twilight, True Blood, Captain America, Falling Skies, Outlander, Game of Thrones, Badlands, Vikings, Stranger Things, Firefly, Revolution, Defiance, Westworld, Walking Dead, Blade Runner, Dune, Lord of the Rings, Ghost in the Shell, Queen of the Damned, Battle Angel, Resident Evil, Halloween, Underworld, Frankenstein, more writer's like Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, and Stephen King. Then there's Vampire Diaries, Van Helsing, The Lost Boys, Salem's Lot, Kolchak the Night Stalker, Grimm Fairy Tales, The Witcher, and even more I'm forgetting to list! About the AuthorMichael W. Huard is a dreamer, a lover of words, and someone with an endless imagination. He's a long-time martial artist, a d&d game master, and simply a human being on a voyage in time living in the heart of rural Maine.Please join his mailing list for all the latest updates in his Gothic fantasy stories and the Mystical Slayers book series. Mike is always busy writing many more tales, and the best is yet to come.Get in Touch:My Facebook author pagehttps://www.facebook.com/pinetreestateauthor/I am also on Goodreads and reviews can be left for all my books.https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17199918.Michael_W_Huard Other books by the authorCOUNT ROTHCHILD (A full novel) Dracula has a brother!TATIJANA VON DRAKENFELL ~The Huntress~ (Follow-up novel to Count Rothchild!The Mystical Slayers Heritage Series (All novellas)Rising: (Set hundreds of years before Land of the Free)Sisters of the Dawn's Early Light: These ladies are tough!Hellcat: Mahira fights like no other!*Now Available - The Mystical Slayers Heritage OMNIBUS; all three novellas in one huge book or boxed set.The Mystical Slayers Trilogy (All full novels)LAND of the FREE: Book One - The sisterhood has arrived!HOPE BRINGERS Book Two - The women must fight!FREEDOM: Book Three - Victory or die!

Illustrated collection of twelve Gothic horror fairy tales containing an assortment of monsters and supernatural creatures with teenage girls as the protagonists (hero). Each ghastly tale will transport you into a forgotten realm of magic and terror.

Kafka, Gothic and Fairytale is an original comparative study of the novels and some of the related shorter punishment fantasies in terms of their relationship to the Gothic and fairytale conventions. It is an absorbing subject and one which, while keeping to the basic facts of his life, mind-set and literary method, shows Kafka’s work in a genuinely new light. The contradiction between his persona with its love of fairytale and his shadow with its affinity with Gothic is reflected in his work, which is both Gothic and other than Gothic, both fairytale-like and the every denial of fairytale. Important subtexts of the book are the close connexion between Gothic and fairytale and between both of these and the dream. German text is quoted in translation unless the emphasis is on the meaning of individual words or phrases, in which case the words in question are quoted and their English meanings discussed. This means that readers without German can, for the first time, begin to understand the underlying ambiguity of Kafka’s major fictions. The book is addressed to all who are interested in the meaning of his work and its place in literary history, but also to the many readers in the English and German-speaking worlds who share the author’s enthusiasm for Gothic and fairytale.

Once upon a time, the stories that came to be known as “fairy tales” were cultivated to entertain adults more than children; it was only later that they were tamed and pruned into less thorny versions intended for youngsters. But in truth, they have continued to prick the imaginations of readers at all ages. Over the years, authors have often borrowed bits and pieces from these stories, grafting them into their own writing, creating literature with both new meaning and age-old significance. In the last few decades or so, they’ve also intentionally retold and reinvented the tales in a variety of ways—delightful or dark, wistful or wicked, sweet or satirical—that forge new trails through the forests of fantastic fiction. This new anthology compiles some of the best modern fairy-tale retellings and reinventions from award-winning and bestselling authors, acclaimed storytellers, and exciting new talents, into an enchanting collection. Explore magical new realms by traveling with us, Beyond the Woods . . .

By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted. Late Romanticism, emphasising as it did the uncertainties of personality and imagination, gave it a new lease of life. Gothic—the literature of disturbance and uncertainty—now produced works that reflected domestic fears, sexual crimes, drug filled hallucinations, the terrible secrets of middle class marriage, imperial horror at alien invasion, occult demonism and the insanity of psychopaths. It was from the 1830s onwards that the old gothic castle gave way to the country house drawing room, the dungeon was displaced by the sewers of the city and the villains of early novels became the familiar figures of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dracula, Dorian Grey and Jack the Ripper. After the death of Prince Albert (1861), the Gothic became darker, more morbid, obsessed with demonic lovers, blood sucking ghouls, blood stained murderers and deranged doctors. Whilst the gothic architecture of the Houses of Parliament and the new Puginesque churches upheld a Victorian ideal of sobriety, Christianity and imperial destiny, Gothic literature filed these new spaces with a dread that spread like a plague to America, France, Germany and even Russia. From 1830 to 1914, the period covered by this volume, we saw the emergence of the greats of Gothic literature and the supernatural from Edgar Allan Poe to Emily Bronte, from Sheridan Le Fanu to Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson. Contributors also examine the fin-de-siècle dreamers of decadence such as Arthur Machen, M P Shiel and Vernon Lee and their obsession with the occult, folklore, spiritualism, revenants, ghostly apparitions and cosmic annihilation. This volume explores the period through the prism of architectural history, urban studies, feminism, 'hauntology' and much more. 'Horror', as Poe teaches us, 'is the soul of the plot'.