Gothic Quotes

A whole Gothic world had come to grief...there was now no armour glittering through the forest glade...

To want more was not just childish, but cowardly, and somehow constpatory too. Death was change; it ...

An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling...

The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being t...

Sometimes I felt the bloated Toad, hideous and pampered with the poisonous vapours of the dungeon, d...

Open your eyes, Ambrosio, and be prudent. Hell is your lot; You are doomed to eternal perdition; Nou...

Gormenghast. Withdrawn and ruinous it broods in umbra: the immemorial masonry: the towers, the tract...

His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the in...

I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the s...

It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

I was thinking that being a demon and a ghost must be very difficult, even for Charles; if he ever f...

It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

I was thinking that being a demon and a ghost must be very difficult, even for Charles; if he ever f...

It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

I was thinking that being a demon and a ghost must be very difficult, even for Charles; if he ever f...

It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

I was thinking that being a demon and a ghost must be very difficult, even for Charles; if he ever f...

Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make ...

He had gone again and, emboldened by his first successful trip, had chosen a different sort of world...

(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshnes...

At length the grandeur of the mountains becomes monotonous; with familiarity, the landscape ceases t...

There Peter sat in the new sunlight, plaiting the straw for baskets, until he saw the thing he had b...

My father lost me to the Beast at cards

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and su...

I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing...

Vidal had his exuberant and stately tower in the most elegant and elevated part of Pedralbes, surrou...

This is a place of mystery, Daniel, a sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. ...

Never before had I felt trapped, so seduced and caught up in a story,' Clara explained, 'the way I d...

Or do you like being frightened?”Hugh, though generally intelligent, is dense in certain ways; this ...

And thus, as a closer and still closer intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into recesses if his s...

This apartment, which you no doubt profanely suppose to be the shop of Will Wimble the undertaker --...