Café de Nuit

Makes you despair sometimes doesn't it?! I mean, could you get a woman more rediculously moral and full of "proper, ladylike" inertia than, say... Emily St Aubert?

I'm curious, what did the Spanish think about the fact that so much of the literature was set in their country? I wonder if anyone ...

Imagine a lake freezing over. The lake is time, the past set into shape, the future a mix of fluid possibility, and us, perched on the edge of the ice, where it is still so thin...

Now picture something moving under the ice, something that hates to be trapped when it can still feel the water ...

Broken One


It was just breathtaking.

Head of a fish, three arms dangling from its scaly hide, legs that looked like they were melting into stumps. And the eyes... they were human, and so filled with rage. I shivered in anticipation, and reached out a hand. The thing snarled, throwing itself ...

Hurrah for Planescape!

Ahem, now I've gotten that out of my system...

The Unmortal template looks really interesting actually... but might I suggest that you don't have the character lose all their memories and skills every time they die?

After all, the Nameless One died many times without losing ...

I would most likely wander around in an existential daze for a few days, wondering if I was imagining this, or if I was merely imagining that I had imagined this..... or even if it was imagining me...

Then my brain would probably snap and I'd end up wandering around, smiling gleefully at all about ...

Powerfully put there, and I'd agree with every word.

In fact, I'd add the word "Stagnation" to Falkovnia's description. Unlike real world states, where revolution and change have been able to topple such appaling regimes, Falkovnia seems impossible to change, and has become set in its ways for so ...

P.S. The thought of The Castle of Otranto as its own domain... that could be very fun, being really quite different from how the genre developed...

Although I still reckon Ambrosio from The Monk never really died... the mists just carried him away

Oooo... I'm sure you've got some of these already, but here's a few from my bibliography...

I found Fred Botting's book, succintly titled "Gothic" to be rather good and George E. Haggerty's "Gothic Fiction/Gothic form"...

I know that opinion is divided on her, but Julia Kristeva's "Power's of ...

I must admit, that the thing that has always really struck me about Falkovnia is its mundanity. This place doesn't rely on any kinds of supernatural trappings, it isn't a realm of vampires or ghosts - this is simply man's inhumanity to man in full flow.

If anything, I'd even mute the references to ...

Ach... should have put these in my last... but they just occurred to me...


Bogeyman, Monsieur Croquemitain

Hear a knock
Rattle the lock
Midnight strikes on the big old clock.

Hide from sight
In the night
Close the window and shine the light.

Heart will beat
Oh so sweet
Just the hearts that he ...

I say! What a brilliant idea... here we go, I don't think these are done yet...



Cloaker, Dread, Resplendent


Personally, I found Giulietta's behaviour this evening inexcusable.

It is simply a common courtesy not to overshadow your hostess. To turn up to an informal party dressed in such a ...