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6 Gothic Books to Read if You Loved Crimson Peak
Gorgeous gothic ruins and whispering ghosts, doomed love stories that end in blood, this is Gothic Horror at its most beautiful and most captivating. Crimson Peak isn’t just a film; it’s a feeling. The soft glow of candlelight as you walk down an epic staircase in a beautiful nightgown, rotting wallpaper next to glittering jewels, the sound of footsteps echoing in empty halls, the ache of memory filling rooms that once held romance. These six books capture the same haunting magic, the same grief and beauty of the film, and they’ll leave you just as obsessed. A mysterious author, his famous book and the girl who’s obsessed. A crumbling seaside…
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Book Review – Horror Movie By Paul Tremblay
The unnamed narrator is recruited by is old college friend Valentina, for a part in her visionary amateur Horror Movie. The movie written by Valentina’s friend Cleo is all about a group of friends, teenage outcasts who set out to make a monster. The character the narrator will portray the Thin Kid, which is why they want him he’s tall lanky he doesn’t even need acting experience his character is the strong silent type. In the summer of 1993 at a condemned school in Rhode Island the cast and crew film the movie. The narrator is only getting his pages the night before so for him his story as the…
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My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna Van Veen – Book Review
Roos Beckman has had a spirit companion since childhood. Ruth has meant she was never alone, not even in her darkest moments and with Roos mother there are many dark moments. Roos Mother forces her to perform as a medium in back room séances, and in 1950’s Netherlands there are plenty of clients. Ruth is the spirit of a centuries old body in the bog that latched on to Roos keeping her company as her mother uses her to scam the neighbours. When the wealthy Agnes Knoop attends one of the séances trying to speak to her husband, Roos and Ruth finally find a way out of their current life…
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