10 Gothic short stories to read on Halloween

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Hi, everyone! Here are ten of my favourite gothic short stories. I love reading some of these on Halloween. I thought it would be fun to share them with you since not everyone has the time to read a novel in one day.
Books and stories mentioned in this video:
-"Snow, Glass, Apples." Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors
The Adventure of the German Student Washington Irving. gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/060...
-Young Goodman Brown. Nathaniel Hawthorne, www.gutenberg.org/files/512/5...
-The Masque of the Red Death. Edgar Allan Poe, www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/...
-The Demon Lover. Elizabeth Bowen,
biblioklept.org/2016/06/20/re...
-The Body-Snatcher, Robert Louis Stevenson, www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/...
- A Rose for Emily. William Faulkner, xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/wf_...
-"The Company of Wolves." The Bloody Chamber. Angela Carter.
-The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe,
www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/...
-La Morte Amoureuse | The Dead Woman in Love | also known as Clarimonde. Théophile Gautier.
www.gutenberg.org/files/22661...
Timecodes
0:00 - Introduction
2:20 - Disclaimer
3:20 - Snow, Glass, Apples
4:10 - The Adventure of the German Student
5:09 - Young Goodman Brown
05:50 - The Masque of the Red Death
8:00 - The Demon Lover
8:49 - The Body-Snatcher
9:36 - A Rose for Emily
10:06 - The Bloody Chamber
10:40 - The Cask of Amontillado
11:50 - La Morte Amoureuse
Music credits:
Dreams Become Real by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. creativecommons.org/licenses/...
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Decline by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. creativecommons.org/licenses/...
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6 июл 2024

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@moffrofflplock600 8 месяцев назад

Angela Carter is my literary discovery this year. Thank you very much for the suggestion.

@evasliteraryparlour 8 месяцев назад

I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed it!

@atlanteum 9 месяцев назад

Another excellent set of reading recommendations, and just in time for the Season of the Witch! I would not think to challenge your knowledge of Gothic literature, but... speaking of Poe... for a variation on a theme - quite literally - are you familiar with the 1976 album "Tales of Mystery & Imagination" by The Alan Parsons Project? Narrated in part by none other than Orson Welles, it is an amazing musical interpretation of several of Poe's best works. I'll take it any day of the year, but it's definitely a Fall/ Autumn/ Hallowe'en favorite, and readily available on a number of RU-vid channels -

@saraawynnie 8 месяцев назад

I'm so glad I found your channel! These are amazing recs, looking forward to more videos from you! 😍

@evasliteraryparlour 8 месяцев назад

Thank you for watching. I'm glad to hear you like the channel 🤗

@lynjazz5122 9 месяцев назад

I love how super spookily ornate Poe's short stories are! (Especially "The Fall of the House of Usher"!)

@evasliteraryparlour 9 месяцев назад

Yes!!! And they are all unique!

@lynjazz5122 9 месяцев назад

The Big King Daddy, in my mind, of Halloween books is 'The October Country' by Ray Bradbury. His story "The Emissary" I enjoyably read to a class of kids in a library a few years back...Anyhow, it's the book that's MOST immersed in the month of October of any I've ever read...

@evasliteraryparlour 9 месяцев назад

I haven't read The October Country, but last year I read Bradbury's The Halloween Tree. It's super halloweenish but rather boring 😅.

@lynjazz5122 9 месяцев назад

Um, well, there's TWO Ray Bradburys-- there's the young one who wrote poetically, and then there's the older Ray who, well, wrote how most writers write. @@evasliteraryparlour

@evasliteraryparlour 9 месяцев назад

oopsie! that must have been the other Bradbury 😅@@lynjazz5122

@lynjazz5122 9 месяцев назад

He wrote that book you read in 1972, a bit after the time he'd written all of his best books, Eva. Of course, this DOESN'T 100% mean that you'd like his earlier stuff--I don't like Harper Lee's 'Mockingbird,' right, but, well, I do still know that it is a masterpiece...Reading is subjective... @@evasliteraryparlour

@lynjazz5122 9 месяцев назад

Gaiman's lke the new Ray Bradbury...

@lauuurar 9 месяцев назад

As a french, i'm glad you like "La Morte Amoureuse" de Gustave Flaubert ♥ I also recommend : - "Le Horla" de Guy de Maupassant - "Le Diable Amoureux" de Jacques Cazotte - "Le Château de Pictordu" de George Sand and more recently (i don't think traductions exist) : - "Apostasie" de Vincent Tassy (CW : a lot of blood + s*xual assault) - "Vert de Lierre" de Louise le Bars Love this video ♥

@evasliteraryparlour 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for watching and for the suggestions! The Horla is part of one of my anthologies, but I rather read it in French. I'm gonna check the other ones as well. I'm currently taking a French course, and your suggestions are going to be super useful in the following weeks to help me prepare for my exams. It makes me happy to encounter French people here 🥰.

@evasliteraryparlour 9 месяцев назад

I didn’t know anything about “Tales of Mystery & Imagination” 👀. Thank you for the recommendation!! Do you know where can I watch it?

@atlanteum 9 месяцев назад

I don't know if any of my replies are showing up on your end. I have replied three times - with links and without links - and RU-vid keeps removing them.

@atlanteum 9 месяцев назад

Every time I list a channel that features the album, RU-vid auto-deletes my post. I really can't stand our digital overlords, and maybe one day, we'll all move over to X or Rumble...

@atlanteum 9 месяцев назад

So... given that I don't seem to be able to post the name of any other channel, I would say that if you do a search on YT, you should be able to find the album with no problem. Grab another glass of wine - and enjoy! [and please let me know if you love or hate it!!]

@mozart98 9 месяцев назад

so please make a video about Poe :)

@evasliteraryparlour 9 месяцев назад

I WILL 👀

@justonefyx 9 месяцев назад

You are only the 2nd person I've heard that can actually admit outloud that Polidori's 'The Vampyre' is a horribly written story. The only other person I've heard brave enough to admit this is the editor Otto Penzler. As much as I like the story, I thought the writing was just horrible, and I thought everyone must feel the same way but are never willing to admit it. All the reviews say it had an immense impact for being the first Vampire story in literature but they stop short of saying it's good. I'd also recommend, 'The Black Vampyre; A Legend of St. Domingo' by Uriah Derick D'Arcy. It was published the same year as Polidori's 'The Vampyre' to capitalize on its sucess. It's also much better written than Polidori's story. There are several references to Polidori's 'The Vampyre' and Lord Byron getting credit for his work in it. I'm intrigued by "The Company of Wolves" by Angela Carter. I saw the film by Neil Jordan. I'm putting that on my reading list.

@evasliteraryparlour 9 месяцев назад

I really don't know someone who likes The Vampyre (poor Polidori!). I still think is a fun story, but I refuse to call it good😄. Thank you for the suggestion!! I love vampires, so this is very cool 👀. I haven't watched The Company of Wolves, but perhaps it's time that I do.

@justonefyx 9 месяцев назад

I forgot to mention 'The Black Vampyre' is also the first black vampire in literature. It's written 46 years before the abolition of slavery in the US, so it could possibly be the first anti slavery short story in literature too. I actually consider 'A Fragment of a Novel' by Lord Byron the first vampire story in Literature. If Byron had completed it, it would have been revealed the main character is a vampire. The story is very identical to Polidori's story but much better written. Like other Fragment stories and poems from the Romantic movement, the unfinished story activates your imagination and it stays in your head for days after reading it. 'Christabel' by Coleridge is a good example of this.@@evasliteraryparlour

@aliciarabb2501 9 месяцев назад

you’re no t wrong that the Vampyir is difficult to read. i think Camilla is much better story as well as any of the Dumas stories from Horror at Fontaney. I think the other title is one and one thousand phantoms. just avoid the 1975 badly edited version.