Elentarri
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The New Gothic: A Collection of Contemporary Gothic Fiction edited by Bradford Morrow and Patrick McGrath
This is a collection of short stories and a few excerpts from novels, such as the one from Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire. The majority of the selection did not appeal to me. Apparently I like my Gothic fiction to be the old fashioned kind with "dark forests and dripping cellars, ruined abbeys riddled with secret passages, clanking chains, skeletons, thunderstorms, and moonlight*", preferably also with supernatural entities and monsters; not this "contemporary" (the book was published in 1991) gothic that apparently explores the "extreme states of psychological disturbance*" that left me wonder what the hell I had just read most of the time. The stories I enjoyed the most were The Road to Nadeja by Bradford Morrow and The Smell by Patrick McGarth. I found the remainder of the stories to be generally forgettable.
*direct quote from the Introduction by B. Morrow and P. McGarth.
This is a collection of short stories and a few excerpts from novels, such as the one from Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire. The majority of the selection did not appeal to me. Apparently I like my Gothic fiction to be the old fashioned kind with "dark forests and dripping cellars, ruined abbeys riddled with secret passages, clanking chains, skeletons, thunderstorms, and moonlight*", preferably also with supernatural entities and monsters; not this "contemporary" (the book was published in 1991) gothic that apparently explores the "extreme states of psychological disturbance*" that left me wonder what the hell I had just read most of the time. The stories I enjoyed the most were The Road to Nadeja by Bradford Morrow and The Smell by Patrick McGarth. I found the remainder of the stories to be generally forgettable.
*direct quote from the Introduction by B. Morrow and P. McGarth.