CATASTROPHE BALLET
As evening falls, knowing the dark for light
CATASTROPHE BALLET
As evening falls, knowing the dark for light
Books
Hawai’i, History, & the Unexpected Gothic: ‘The Hala Tree Walks in Darkness’
Identifying the Gothic: The Seven Gothic Signs
Duality: ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’
Audio and Irony: ‘The Heart is a Lonely Hunter’
Raising Ghosts: ‘The Haunting of Hill House’
Love Letters to Poe: A Convergence of Wonder and Terror
Bram’s Birthday Bite: ‘A Gothic Cookbook’ Recipe
Guest Post: Wicked Women and the Female Gothic, Du Maurier’s ‘Rebecca’ & ‘My Cousin Rachel’
That Very Special Gingerbread: ‘A Gothic Cookbook’ Recipe
In Surreal Life: ‘Surrealism Beyond Borders’
Low Culture Podcast: Performance
Overmono Detail New Album, ‘Pure Devotion’
Sergeant – Symbols
The Great Majority: Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th-Century Britain
“Wretches, Speak Evil of Me”: Goethe and Schiller’s Xenions (1896 edition)
Broken Ground: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History
Pulex irritans: The Attack of the Monster (1885)
“A Beautiful Purplish Hue”: Frank Dudley Beane’s Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884)
Magic by Return of Post: How Mail Order Delivered the Occult
Books I’m Excited for in 2026
Longitude by Way of Wounded Hounds: Kenelm Digby’s Sympathetick Powder (1669 edition)
Review of The Villa, Once Beloved—Filipino Gothic
Review of Wolf Worm—Entomological Horror
Review of The Red Winter—Werewolves in Revolutionary France
Race and Regionalism: ‘Drenched in Light’
Guest Post: ‘Geek Love’, An Intimate Portrait of a Nuclear Family
Southern Gothic Foundations: ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’
Review of Morsel—Anti-Capitalist Folk Horror
Into the Abstract: ‘The Paperhanger’
