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Book: Wuthering Heights / Emily Brontë

At the centre of this novel is the passionate love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff - recounted with such emotional intensity that a plain tale of the Yorkshire moors acquires the depth and simplicity of ancient tragedy.
posted by johnofjack on Nov 26, 2023 - 22 comments

Book: A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to manifest troubling symptoms of mental illness. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Oct 6, 2023 - 3 comments

Movie: Vampire Hunter D

In a far-future time ruled by the supernatural, a young girl requests the help of a vampire hunter to kill the vampire who has bitten her and thus prevent her from becoming a vampire herself. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Aug 4, 2023 - 6 comments

Movie: The Keep

Nazi captain Klaus Woermann (Jürgen Prochnow) and his soldiers take over an ancient Romanian fortress that seems to have been built not to keep people out, but to keep something in. As mysterious forces begin killing off his men, Woermann's commanding officer Major Kaempffer (Gabriel Byrne) demands answers. The nearby village's priest (Robert Prosky) suggests they retrieve Jewish scholar Theodore Cuza (Ian McKellen) and his daughter Eva (Alberta Watson) from a nearby concentration camp to see if they can uncover the keep's secrets. Meanwhile, an ominous stranger (Scott Glenn) circles and waits. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 4, 2023 - 6 comments

Movie: The Invitation

After the death of her mother and having no other known relatives, Evie (Nathalie Emmanuel) takes a DNA test... and discovers a long-lost cousin she never knew she had. Invited by her newfound family to a lavish wedding in the English countryside, she's at first seduced by the sexy aristocrat host but is soon thrust into a nightmare of survival as she uncovers twisted secrets in her family's history and the unsettling intentions behind their sinful generosity. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 26, 2022 - 9 comments

Book: Anatomy: A Love Story

A YA love story set in 19th-century Scotland, where a willful female surgeon in training and a resurrection man (who sells bodies for a living) uncover buried secrets together. [more inside]
posted by gemmy on Feb 19, 2022 - 3 comments

Movie: Jack Be Nimble

In this New Zealand gothic, twins Jack and Dora are adopted by different families as toddlers. As young adults they find each other, but years of abuse have changed Jack. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Oct 12, 2021 - 1 comment

Movie: The Nest

A paralyzed young boy lives on an isolated estate with strange rules. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Oct 11, 2020 - 1 comment

Book: Her Body and Other Parties

Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction “[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”―Roxane Gay “In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women’s memories and hunger and desire. I couldn’t put it down.”―Karen Russell In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and...
posted by CMcG on Dec 8, 2019 - 6 comments

Book: Dracula

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on May 6, 2019 - 85 comments

Movie: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Jun 7, 2018 - 6 comments

Book: Flowers In The Attic

“Love doesn’t always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will.” [more inside]
posted by roger ackroyd on Feb 25, 2018 - 19 comments

Movie: Tideland

Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.
posted by invitapriore on Mar 27, 2017 - 7 comments

Penny Dreadful: Fresh Hell  Season 2, Ep 1

Season premiere episode released early by Showtime. Find it here . [more inside]
posted by jadepearl on Apr 24, 2015 - 15 comments

Gugure! Kokkuri-san: DESTINY  Season 1, Ep 12

The season finale is a combination Christmas/New Year episode. On Christmas Eve, Kohina is confronted by a peculiar salaryman while she window-shops. Later, on New Year's Day, the whole gang cleans house and visits the local temple.
posted by ardgedee on Dec 22, 2014 - 2 comments

Gugure! Kokkuri-san: Adult Dropout Cosplay!  Season 1, Ep 11

The household succumbs to even more chaos than usual after Inugami steals Kokkuri's bottle of rejuvenating spring water.
posted by ardgedee on Dec 15, 2014 - 0 comments

Gugure! Kokkuri-san: Kureha's Days Spent Waiting in Vain!  Season 1, Ep 10

Kokkuri and Kohina meet a mysterious girl waiting under a red maple tree, and decide to help her, with the assistance of other forest residents.
posted by ardgedee on Dec 7, 2014 - 1 comment

Gugure! Kokkuri-san: The Age of Many Worries!  Season 1, Ep 9

Kokkuri panics when he begins losing his hair. Inugami feels bitter and lonely when the household ignores him, so he decides to run away.
posted by ardgedee on Dec 1, 2014 - 6 comments

Gugure! Kokkuri-san: Kokkuri-san's Steamy Secret Hot Spring Tour!  Season 1, Ep 8

Shigaraki wins tickets for a trip to the hot springs, and so Kokkuri and the gang takes a hot springs vacation. Kokkuri uses the trip to find a way to revert the curse received in the previous episode. [more inside]
posted by ardgedee on Nov 23, 2014 - 6 comments

Gugure! Kokkuri-san: Cat God Tama's Love at First Sight!  Season 1, Ep 7

Kokkuri and Kohina confront the cat god Tama after she has been stalking them. Later, while cleaning the Ichimatsu family storehouse, Kokkuri opens one of the boxes out of curiosity.
posted by ardgedee on Nov 17, 2014 - 4 comments

Gugure! Kokkuri-san: Kohina, the Cyclops, and Shigaraki!  Season 1, Ep 6

Kohina begins seeing small demons and spirits, and Kokkuri and Shigaraki begin to worry. Later, Kokkuri and Inugami have a heart to heart talk.
posted by ardgedee on Nov 12, 2014 - 11 comments

Gugure! Kokkuri-san: The Flowers on the Desk are a Message!  Season 1, Ep 5

Shigaraki encounters Inugami in female form for the first time and things get awkward. Later, Kohina is confronted by Jimeko-san at school and meets the school's new exchange students.
posted by ardgedee on Nov 10, 2014 - 3 comments

Gugure! Kokkuri-san: The One on My Mind is Into Sci-Fi!  Season 1, Ep 4

Shigaraki the rather unpleasant tanuki introduces himself and we learn about his past with Kokkuri. Later Kokkuri, concerned about whether Kohina is being bullied, follows her to school and meets the grey schoolboy Yamamoto-kun.
posted by ardgedee on Nov 8, 2014 - 4 comments

Gugure! Kokkuri-san: Inugami, Stay! Go to Your House!  Season 1, Ep 3

Inugami settles in at Kohina's house and gets to work on haunting her. He does his best to disrupt Kokkuri-san's daily routine of house chores and caring for Kohina as well...
posted by ardgedee on Nov 6, 2014 - 4 comments

Gugure! Kokkuri-san: A Refreshing Smile is the First Step Towards Becoming a Real Human!  Season 1, Ep 2

Kokkuri-san tries to break through Kohina's doll facade, which leads to her first attempts to smile. Later, we are introduced to the dog ghost Inugami, who also has a past involving Kohina.
posted by ardgedee on Nov 4, 2014 - 5 comments

Gugure! Kokkuri-san: Doll Girl Meets Kokkuri-san!  Season 1, Ep 1

A young girl, Kohina, seemingly living alone without parents, has decided to extinguish her feelings and become a doll. One day she summons a fox spirit while playing a Japanese version of ouiji, and the spirit, Kokkuri, becomes her protector. This is a dark comedic anime based on a popular 4koma manga. In this first episode, we are introduced to the two main characters and Kohnina's seemingly unvanquishable hunger for cheap cup ramen. [more inside]
posted by ardgedee on Nov 2, 2014 - 7 comments

Movie: The Changeling

A composer moves into a huge Victorian mansion after the death of his wife and daughter, only to find that he's not quite alone. [more inside]
posted by Joakim Ziegler on Sep 3, 2014 - 11 comments

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