My Gothic Page!
For years I have been studying and analyzing Gothicism. I began at a very young age when
Masterpiece Theater would come on the radio and I stayed up listening to it, sometimes to almost
midnight. By age 12, I had read most of Agatha Christie's books and understood the elements of
suspense literature. I was fascinated by the gore and the intrigue. I quickly moved on to Gothic
literature (not knowing that the genre was called that way) with H.P. Lovecraft and Joyce Carol
Oates. By age 18 I had read most published Stephen King books and was a fan of Edgar Allan Poe.
In college, I took a Gothic Literature course and presented a thesis titled "The Grotesque in
Literature," in which Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce and Stephen King were my sources of
inspiration.
Here I deliver my musings and findings on the proponents of Gothic literature, but also horror and
suspense. As I try to summarize my thoughts, in order to objectify my ideas toward a second
degree, I plan for my students and gain insight toward the ugliness within humanity, and how
society converges into the little discussed limits of tragedy and human error.
Masterpiece Theater would come on the radio and I stayed up listening to it, sometimes to almost
midnight. By age 12, I had read most of Agatha Christie's books and understood the elements of
suspense literature. I was fascinated by the gore and the intrigue. I quickly moved on to Gothic
literature (not knowing that the genre was called that way) with H.P. Lovecraft and Joyce Carol
Oates. By age 18 I had read most published Stephen King books and was a fan of Edgar Allan Poe.
In college, I took a Gothic Literature course and presented a thesis titled "The Grotesque in
Literature," in which Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce and Stephen King were my sources of
inspiration.
Here I deliver my musings and findings on the proponents of Gothic literature, but also horror and
suspense. As I try to summarize my thoughts, in order to objectify my ideas toward a second
degree, I plan for my students and gain insight toward the ugliness within humanity, and how
society converges into the little discussed limits of tragedy and human error.
