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[–]candiedDagon 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I'd love to read some gothic horror or spooky mystery novel that just happens to have lesbians in it.

[–]writerlylesbian[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

the 'dark fantasy' novel I mentioned above actually has ghosts and a lot of Gothic themes. I'm a big fan of the Gothic, even wrote a mini-thesis on the subject years ago for one of my courses at uni.

[–]candiedDagon 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Awesome, I wrote a long paper in uni on gothic vampire novels and their historical/cultural context. Some of the topics I covered were historical cases where corpses were buried alive, real life vampire superstitions, and scientific challenges to religion causing increasing anxiety about death... Such a fun paper to research! What was your thesis about?

[–]writerlylesbian[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Gothic horror influences in Australian Tasmanian fiction. I also looked at how Gothic traditions influenced some of the ways Tasmania was viewed and written about historically. (Tasmania had some of Australia's most brutal and notorious convict colonies, as well as being a tiny island at the literal end of the populated world, so no wonder it used to get written about as a Gothic horror land).