Gothic non-fiction in the Senior Library
Donnie Darko by Call Number: 791.4372ISBN: 1905674511With its gothic tale of a troubled teen haunted by visions of a figure in a Halloween rabbit suit, Donnie Darko was among the first cult movie phenomena of the twenty-first century, making debut director Richard Kelly Hollywood hot property...
The biology of horror : Gothic literature and film by Call Number: 809.3ISBN: 0809324717Contents: "The Body Is His Book" -- Mortal Coils: The Comic-Horror Double Helix -- The Muse of Horror: Traditions of Dreadful Imagining...
Gothic & Gender by Call Number: 823.0872909ISBN: 0631200509
Gothic Modernisms by Call Number: 823.9109112ISBN: 0333918738
Gothic Films
Batman
Dark City
Edward Scissorhands
Heavenly Creatures
The Innocents
The Others
Rebecca
Sleepy Hollow Angel
The Blair Witch Project
Blue Velvet
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
The Crow
Don't Look Now
Gothic
The Haunting (1963)
The Hunger (1983)
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Psycho
Red Rose
Rosemary's Baby
Shadow of the Vampire
The Shining
About Gothic Films
- Origin of Gothic in cinemaOkay, Ghouls and Ghoulitas, ask yourself a little question: When did you get your first bitter taste of the melancholy exhaltation of the Gothic?
Contemporary Gothic Books
The House of the Spirits by Call Number: F ALLISBN: 0552995886
The Blind Assassin by Call Number: F ATWISBN: 1860498809At the end of her life, Iris Griffen records the secret history of her family, the romantic melodrama of its decline and fall between the two World Wars. Conjuring a world of prosperity and misery, marriage and loneliness, the central enigma of Iris's tale is the death of her sister, Laura Chase, who "drove a car off a bridge" at the end of the Second World War. Suicide or accident?
The Wasp Factory by Call Number: F BANISBN: 0684853159Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago; his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale.
Psycho [videorecording] by Call Number: F PSYISBN: 0783233965Criminal on the run, Marion Crane (Anne Heche) takes refuge at the motel operated by Norman Bates (Vince Vaughn)- a troubled man whose victims encounter a grisly fate at the hands of his "mother".
The Resurrectionist by Call Number: F BRAISBN: 0330422839Gabriel Swift has left behind his father's failures to study with Edwin Poll, the greatest of the city's anatomists. It is his chance to find advancement by making a name for himself. But instead he finds himself drawn to his master's nemesis, Lucan, the most powerful of the city's resurrectionists and ruler of its trade in stolen bodies.
In Cold Blood by Call Number: 920 CAPISBN: 0141043083Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime
The Bloody Chamber by Call Number: F CARISBN: 014017821XOTHER BOOKS by Angela Carter :
The Magic Toyshop
Nights at the Circus
Wise Children
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Call Number: F CLAISBN: 0747582092
Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves by Call Number: F DANISBN: 038560310XJohnny Truant, a wild and troubled sometime employee in a LA tattoo parlour, finds a notebook kept by Zampano, a reclusive old man found dead in a cluttered apartment. Herein is the heavily annotated story of the Navidson Report...
The Name of the Rose by Call Number: F ECOISBN: 0099466031The year is 1327. Brother William of Baskerville arrives at a wealthy Italian abbey on theological business. When his delicate mission is overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective.
The Collector by Call Number: F FOWISBN: 0099470470
The Silence of the Lambs by Call Number: F HARISBN: 0099532921An FBI trainee A psychopath locked up for unspeakable crimes And a serial killer getting ever closer to his latest victim … FBI rookie Clarice Starling turns to Dr. Hannibal Lecter, monster cannibal held in a hospital for the criminally insane, for insight into the deadly madman she must find
Journal Articles
- A new Era of Gothic HorrorA look at the subversive genre and its appeal to today's teens.
A New Era of Gothic Horror
from Up for Discussion by Philip Charles Crawford
A look at the subversive power of the genre and its appeal to today's teens.
(from the School Library Journal October 2008)
Other Gothic fiction in the Senior Library
A great and terrible beauty by Call Number: F BRAISBN: 0385732317After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world...
Gothic tales by Call Number: F GASISBN: 014043741X
The legend of sleepy hollow by Call Number: F HAMISBN: 1582404119A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.
The Woman in black by Call Number: F HILISBN: 0099288478
Rebecca by Call Number: F DUMISBN: 1844080382
Gothic Graphic Novels
Gaiman, Neil – DreamCountry, Preludes And Nocturnes, The Doll’s House
Moore, Alan - V for Vendetta, Watchmen
Gothic Music
Examples of Gothic Music
Bach, J.S. Toccata And Fugue In D Minor (soundtrack to Rollerball )
Berlioz, Hector Symphonie Fantastique (1820)
Modest Mussorgsky A Night on Bald Mountain (1867)
Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring (1914); Carmina Burana (1935)
More Contemporary Gothic Books
The Trial by Call Number: F KAFISBN: 0099428644Josef K. awakes one morning to find himself arrested. The nature of his crime is not revealed to him, neither is the date of his trial.
Salem's Lot by Call Number: F KINISBN: 0340951478Ben Mears, a moderately successful writer, returns to Salem's Lot to write a novel based on his early years and to exorcise the terrors (which centre on events he witnessed in a house there) that have haunted him since childhood.
Other Novels by Stephen King
Carrie
The Shining
The Moth Diaries by Call Number: F KLEISBN: 0571224636At an exclusive girls’ boarding school, a sixteen-year-old girl records her most intimate thoughts in a diary. The object of her growing obsession is her roommate, Lucy Blake, and Lucy’s friendship with their new and disturbing classmate.
The Phantom of the Opera by Call Number: F LERISBN: 1613820186
The Black Prince by Call Number: F MURISBN: 0099283999Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement
Gormenghast by Call Number: F PEAISBN: 074939482XAlso by this author : Titus Groan
The Vampire Chronicles Collection by Call Number: F RICISBN: 03454563431. Interview with the vampire -- The vampire Lestat -- The Queen of the damned
Lovely Bones by Call Number: F SEBISBN: 0330413163This is the tale of family, memory, love, and living told by 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who is already in heaven. Through the voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death and builds out of her family's grief a hopeful and joyful story
Perfume by Call Number: F SUSISBN: 0141189193Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean - Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's.
A Fatal Inversion by Call Number: F VINISBN: 0140086374
The Spire by Call Number: F GOLISBN: 0571225462The vision that drives Dean Jocelin to construct an immense new spire above his cathedral tests the limits of all who surround him
