Nacogdoches Gothic

Joe R. Lansdale talks Bubba horror at Feral Cinema (Video)

"...man who is the devil and angel of Texas literature (see video from the event here.)..."

June 19, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Raging Grace

Gothic-tinged immigration melodrama is neither lurid nor incisive enough

"...Under the classics of British Gothic literature, your Wuthering Heights and The Mysteries of Udolpho,..."

Dec. 1, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Raging Grace

Filipino British Gothic drama overshadows its own polemic

"...Under the classics of British Gothic literature, your Wuthering Heights and The Mysteries of Udolpho,..."

March 17, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Arrested Development?

Young-at-heart Austin is home to a booming Young Adult literature scene

"...In many ways, the wedding of Victorian gothic to Austin's buzzing eclecticism within the context of Young..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Books Feature by Melanie Haupt

Jane Eyre

The foggy moors are palpable, the passions less so, but this new adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's oft-told story is a handsome addition to the canon.

"...in a handsomely mounted new version. That Charlotte Brontë’s Gothic novel, which was published in 1847, has seen so..."

March 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

"...animation teams. The majesty and playfulness of Notre Dame's Gothic architecture provide a feast for the eyes, a sight..."

June 21, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Knuckleball

Southern Gothic in in the Canadian heartland

"...This is pure frozen Southern Gothic: Ominous chords, slow pans, flashbacks as splinters of an..."

Oct. 5, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Nosferatu

When this play looks in the mirror, the dramaturg is invisible

"...voice to tell the company, "Too dark! Use flash!" Gothic Halloween vampire story or not, the audience still needs..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Your Fantasy House

Where reader types would own a vacation home if it could be anywhere in literature

"...have a second home in any imaginary realm in literature, where would it be? Here are their answers...."

June 17, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Brothers in Arms

Jeff Nichols' Southern Gothic family saga, 'Shotgun Stories'

"...I'd really been writing short stories and focusing on literature and English. But I also had a love for..."

June 27, 2008 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Bedside Manner: Hell, Ghosts, and Blood

Nihilists have more fun

"...stupidity. I'm a firm believer that one's choice in literature should reflect that in as jovial a fashion as..."

June 22, 2016 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Cold Case

'True Detective’s missing spark

"...HBO’s True Detective is a spare, serenely shot Southern Gothic that features a script that feels intimately labored over..."

Jan. 12, 2014 Screens Post by Aleksander Chan

Race to Innovation

With $1,000 each and eight weeks, five teams compete to take theatre to a new level

"...one wall of their office, and reading up on Gothic literature. Their play, called Terminal, is about a man..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

In the Slipstream: An FC2 Reader

"...of his own felonious perversities, the mad castle of gothic literature, these authors are merely bunglers in the bungalow..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Books Review by Roger Gathman

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Horror sets sail with the scariest section of Dracula

"...stand as one of the greatest achievements in horror literature, a perfect descent into gothic terror. And so it’s..."

Aug. 11, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Flannery

The first lady of Southern Gothic letters on the cusp of the modern era

"...a documentary about the acerbic first lady of Southern literature cannot afford to soften her bristling edges, her side-eye..."

July 17, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

Our most primal fears about what's lurking in the dark lies at the heart of this Guillermo del Toro-scripted frightmare.

"...H.P. Lovecraft in his 1927 essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature." To that I'd humbly add: The second oldest and..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

You Know Nothing of Their Work

Don Graham and the many minds of Texas

"...J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American and English Literature at the University of Texas and veteran teacher of..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Books Feature by Cindy Widner

Book Reviews

Writes of Spring

"...a stripper named Thumper. This is all pure L.A. gothic, where the ancestral spirits are John Fante and Charles..."

April 14, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

South-of-the-Border Speculation

Three Messages and a Warning presents a broad swath of Mexican SF

"...W. Campbell-like jaunts set in Zacatecas. "Contemporary Mexican fantastic literature tends to be less about adventurous escapism – Mexicans..."

Jan. 20, 2012 Books Feature by Roberto Ontiveros

Five Fusebox Shows to Get You Buzzing

The annual Austin-born arts festival returns with five days of wonder

"...annual curated conflagration of film, theatre, dance, visual art, literature, music, and more. So much to see, so much..."

April 7, 2023 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Five Decades of The Doctor

Our resident Brit examines the 50th anniversary of 'Doctor Who'

"...made-for-TV movie recast him as a smouldering, Byronic figure, Gothic and glowering. When the real cash came back for..."

Nov. 21, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Recurring Character

Four Texas writers on fathers and sons

"...about Never the Same Again: A Rock 'n' Roll Gothic, which relates my youthful indiscretions and other lurid stuff..."

June 17, 2005 Books Feature

The Horror,The Horror!

"...has been granted. Nightwalkers focuses on the cycle of gothic horror films made between 1957 and 1976 and is..."

Dec. 1, 1995 Books Feature

Bedside Manner

The books I haven’t read keep me warm at night

"...I’ve always been a purist about literature. Perhaps unfairly so: always championing the “classics” over contemporary..."

April 16, 2012 Books Post by Russ Espinoza

Benjamin and Byron's Long-Term Affair

An émigré author, a bad-boy poet, and an epic trilogy at its end

"...performance by Gabriel Byrne in that Kenneth Russell classic Gothic, as well as a funky comparison to Elvis Presley..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Books Feature by Roberto Ontiveros

Chris the Conqueror

Chris Roberson takes on Superman, Elric, Captain Kirk, and Cinderella – and wins

"...O'Neil and Joe Lansdale, the king of West Texas gothic. "I started a publishing company just so I could..."

July 29, 2011 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Stickmen With Ray Guns

Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Steam

"...than just another subheading in the annals of fantastic literature. The idea of a literary genre mash-up that melded..."

April 29, 2011 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

Going Home to the Armadillo

After 30 years, the song remains the same at ArmadilloCon, Texas' favorite sci-fi convention

"...about books. Joe Lansdale, the boss of East Texas Gothic and an ArmadilloCon regular throughout its now 30-year history,..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Books Feature by Richard Whittaker

World of Books

The Fifth Annual Texas Book Festival

"...earlier this year, the publication of Branches, a hypnotic, gothic, even hyperbolic novel in verse form, cemented what Cullin..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Books Feature by Clay Smith

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