/lit/ - Literature

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

>>18318041
the castle of otranto

>>18318041
Poe
Frankenstein
Les chants de Maldoror
Les fleurs du mal
Wuthering Heights (arguably)

Read Poe. Now.

Is that Ginger?

>>18318041
A Justified Sinner

It's about a man who takes Protestantism to its final conclusion.
He executes as many people as he can because he thinks his place in heaven is predetermined.

My ex was into this one for like a year.
Twilight was also popular and yes I know it's also popular to hate on it.

>>18318041
La Bas by Huysmans is the best. I gave a copy to a hot goth chick that I was banging and she rode me reverse cowgirl after I did.

Gothic Fiction is SHIT.

>>18320809
Aww it's not that bad. I think they're sweet.

Check out vathek

Lol Deathauthoranon is so triggered he's posting some of his novellas.
Gothic lit is solid my dude. (I'm tempted to post the books I wrote too but nine books is enough.)
Yes Dragons Don't cook pizza is goth fite me.

>>18318119
Vital and underrated. It's not the greatest work, but it literally defined the genre.
Other obvious picks include Dracula, Frankenstein, and the works of Poe.

>>18318041
>>18318230
Gore is just slasher shit. Gothic fiction has ambiance. Tragedy mixed with romance.

>>18320935
Give me rec. I don't really care for romance but I like tragedy and the macarbe and terrible unavoidable fatalism

>>18320935

>>18318041
>impressing goth sluts
just get drugs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hcXASW4v8R8

>>18320949
I thought you would have liked Ginger Snaps

>>18320957
If you don't like Dawn then try Phantom of the Opera like I posted twice now in this thread (lol) Chateau of the Shadows is alright too.
If you don't mind sparkly vampires Twilight is a good conversation topic if you're talking to girls that hang out in the shadows. You know they read it. You know it happened.

>>18320960
No. Bad end. Druggie goths have no self control and fast track their bodies to oblivion and will drag you along for the ride.
Mine was into religion (Wicca) and was a cutter, but she took care of herself. Good ones do exist.

the turn of the screw obligatory

>>18321001
>was a cutter, but she took care of herself
nigga what?????

>>18321001
Seeing mid 20s fat goth girls is always sad. You know they were sexy in their teens

>>18318041
Charles Pierre Baudelaire

>>18321021
She only cut herself once in two years and it was across her heart because I made her upset. Everything before that left scars which to my understanding was because her parents weren't really nice to her.
We've obviously been apart for a very long time but I like to think she got over cutting and became a healthy well adjusted individual.

>>18321086
>She only cut herself once in two years and it was across her heart because I made her upset.
Very morbid but very romantic.

>>18318230
I really like how she's wearing one colored contact lens, so her pupils are different sizes. It's so subtle, most people won't consciously notice it, and it makes her look completely deranged.

>>18321221
Desu I thought it was weird that no one in the movie noticed her hair was turning white, eyes changing color, and teeth turning into fangs. Maybe because she's such an oddball they just thought it was Ginger being Ginger

>>18321194
It's not as bad as it probably sounds.
(Don't get too excited these were over a decade ago before the world went into the loony bin.)

>>18321249
Very nice, that's a real cut. Fuck is there something wrong with me for admiring that?

>>18321276
Nah. You guys want goth you get goth. These are Deathauthoranon's peoples.
She was a really tough girl, just had a little bit of a harder time staving off the shadows than I did.
Actually now that I think about it you guys might wanna try reading a book called Coraline too. It's a good one.

>>18318041
may be useful

>>18320809
Faulkner would like a word

>>18318041
this game is shit BTW. better play RE4

Dracula
Frankenstein
Lovecraft
Venus in Furs*

The only things you need to read to impress Goth girls.

*(And convince them to let you whip them).

>>18318041
Have a big dick and be 6ft. tall.

>>18322482
>6ft.
6'2'' is the new 6'

>>18318188
It's a shame that most of the stuff poe wrote wasn't really spooky or gothic. I regretted purchasing his complete works after realising this.

>>18322854
I'm currently reading, for the first time, a complete anthology of his work and I'm extremely disappointed. I'm familiar with him, I've read some of his stories countless times in different anthologies. But now I'm finding out that most of his stories are bad comedies.

>>18322408
this is exactly what I was looking for, thanks

>>18323319

>>18323319
2nd from the left, jesus.

>>18324554
I've been coming back to this thread to stare at her all morning

>>18325045
glad i'm not the only one

Whats the difference between goth and emo?

>>18325285
Some people will say that the differences are based off music but for someone that lived it that was never the case.
Emo for us was short for emotional because you'd focus on the pain and suffering of life and the fact you're forced to live it.
Gothic people are a lot more logical (don't look at me like that) about the whole thing and kind of celebrate the shadows as we dance around in them.
Goths are the ones that want to go to pretty ballroom dances and masquerades, wander around graveyards at night, write books about the afterlife. Can be a bit sanguine too. I'm still kinda sad we lost the right to the word black. We can't say our souls are black because that means something entirely different now.
Alas.

what books does she read?

>>18325374
The wall devastated her

>>18325367
God that's so enamoring. I've always loved gothic aesthetics but could never incorporate it into myself without it feeling cheap and cringe

>>18323319
>the one on the left

Bet you never heard of these ones.

>>18325285
I've heard of gothic literature but have never heard of emo literature.

>>18326245
It helps to have a friend circle that enjoys the dress up, and to have a good sense of humor about it. I was just out of high school when we were all doing all the goth stuff that we did.
Nowadays most of my clothing is work outfits and a basic t shirt and jeans for shopping errands (..and I've lost a lot of hair up top) but if I was in a group or paired up with another gothic girl I wouldn't mind getting back in the saddle.
Would I do it alone on my shopping trips just to express myself? Well, I'm in my 30s now and there's no reason to dress to impress.
Moonlight touched girls do make the heart go pitter patter ever still though.
(My music taste is dated, but if you want some goth music while reading your goth books I like Evanescence, HIM, Panic at the Disco, Avril Lavigne, Emilie Autumn and Within Temptation)
...and of course the one genre of music that all goths must like...classic European ballroom music and violin.
We're not hard rockers. We're sweet and serene.

>>18326437
You've never heard of my diary desu

>>18318041
you have to read the brontë sisters

>>18325395
Your shallowness devastated you

>>18318041
The sad thing is that most goth girls are just into the fashion and music and not gothic literature. This makes sense though as the subculture originated from the music.

>>18327580
Plenty of other things devasted me. My shallowness is not among them

>>18327580
>Your shallowness devastated you

>>18321249
Bitch obviously didn't know anything about anatomy lmao

Pretty much any of Shirley Jackson’s works