• 4 aventures de reinette et mirabelle
• alucarda
• an american haunting
• an american werewolf in london
• ari aster
  • hereditary
  • midsommar
• beyond the black rainbow
• bodies bodies bodies
• body horror
  • david cronenberg
    • (1981) scanners
    • (1983) videodrome
    • (1986) the fly
    • (1988) dead ringers
    • (1996) crash
    • (1999) existenz
    • (2014) maps to the stars

• bears
• butterflies
• canides (coyotes, fennec foxes, foxes, jackals, wolves)
• crows & ravens
• falcons
• deers (chital, elks, fallow deers, gray brockets, marsh deers, mooses, mule deers, reindeers, roe deers)
• dogs (alaskan malamute, belgian shepherd, czechoslovakian wolfdog, german shepherd, saarloos wolfhound, samoyed, siberian husky)
• felines (canadian lynx, caracal, cats, cheetah, cougar, jaguar, leopard, lions, lynx, ocelot, snow leopard, tigers)
• horses
• moths
  • death head
  • luna

• “believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
• “never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
• “i wish i could write as mysterious as a cat.”
• “deep in earth my love is lying/ and i must weep alone.”
• “and so being young and dipped in folly i fell in love with melancholy.”
• “i felt that i breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.”
• “and all i loved, i loved alone.”
• “invisible things are the only realities.”
• “deep into that darkness peering, long i stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” ― the raven
• “even in the grave, all is not lost.”

• "…i took refuge in the most perfect solitude. i passed whole days on the lake alone, in a little boat, watching the clouds, and listening to the rippling of the waves, silent and listless."
• "solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”
• "beware; for i am fearless, and therefore powerful."
• "…still it haunted me."
• "we will be monsters, alone in the world, but we will have each other."
• "to examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death."

• "a far sea moves in my ear." — from 'ariel'
• "everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. the worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." — from 'the unabridged journals'
• "god, I overflow with the vitality and ecstasy of being alive!"
• "i am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than i." — from 'the unabridged journals'
• "i am possessive about time alone."
• "i am pretty much disgusted with human behavior most of the time."
• "i can never read all the books i want; i can never be all the people i want and live all the lives i want. i can never train myself in all the skills i want. and why do i want? i want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of ment..._'the unabridged journals'_

• "dreary, calm november days when there is but one cloud, but that one covers the whole heaven." ― geraldine and jane
• "the weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; my thoughts follow the exact same process." ― diary entry dated 21 april 1918

girls

• abigail. agatha. agnes. aithne/aíne. angeline. anouk. aoife. beatrix. brigitte. caitriona. carolina. catarina. cecilia. chantal. charlotte. chloë. clarice. daphne. delphine. eleanor. etienne. evangeline. imogen. june. lorelai. maud. octavia. ophelia. persephone. rhiannon. saoirse. sophia. theodora. theresa. vivienne.

boys

• caleb. heitor. theodore.

• amando de ossorio
  • (1972) la noche del terror ciego
  • (1973) el ataque de los muertos sin ojos
  • (1974) el buque maldito
  • (1975) la noche de las gaviotas
• jean rollin
  • (1978) les raisins de la mort
  • (1979) frascination
• jesús franco
  • (1968) succubus
  • (1970) count dracula
  • (1972) la fille de dracula
• les lèvres rouges
• mais ne nous delivrez pas du mal

• amanti d'oltretomba (nightmare castle)
• antonio margheriti
  • danza macabra
  • i lunghi capelli della morte
• buio omega (beyond the darkness)
• camilo mastrocinque
  • la cripta e l'incubo
  • un angelo per satana
• dario argento
  • (1970) l'uccello dalle piume di cristallo
  • (1971) 4 mosche di velluto grigio
  • (1971) il gatto a nove code
  • inferno
  • opera
  • phenomena
  • suspiria
  • tenebre

• ✔ coco mellors - cleopatra and frankenstein
• ✔ donna tartt - the goldfinch
• elizabeth kostova - the swan thieves
• ✔ olivie blake - alone with you in the ether
• ✔ rachel kushner - the flamethrowers

• ✔ álvares de azevedo - noite na taverna
• bernardo guimarães - a dança dos ossos
• bernardo guimarães - o seminarista
• ✔ carolina nabuco - a sucessora
• fagundes varela - as bruxas (fantástico brasileiro: contos esquecidos, antologia por maria cristina batalha)
• fagundes varela - as ruínas da glória (panorama do conto brasileiro vol. ii, antologia por edgar cavalheiro e mário de silva brito)
• joão guimarães rosa - meu tio o iauaretê
• josé de alencar - encarnação
• machado de assis - contos fantásticos (antologia por raimundo magalhães júnior)

• ✔ carmilla by j. sheridan le fanu
• collected ghost stories by m.r. james
• ✔ dracula by bram stoker
• ✔ frankenstein by mary wollstonecraft shelley
• ✔ jane eyre by charlotte brontë
• ✔ la morte amoureuse by théophile gautier
• ✔ northanger abbey by jane austen
• penny dreadfuls: sensational tales of terror by stefan r. dziemianowicz, e.t.a. hoffmann
• ✔ perfume: the story of a murderer by patrick süskind
• ✔ rebecca by daphne du maurier
• the bloody chamber and other stories by angela carter
• ✔ the complete stories and poems by edgar allan poe
• ✔ the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson
• the historian by elizabeth kostova

• daniel defoe - robinson crusoe (1719)
• ✔ edgar allan poe - the narrative of arthur gordon pym (1838)
• ernest hemingway - the old man and the sea (1952)
• herman melville
  • mardi: and a voyage thither (1849)
  • ✔ moby dick (1851)
  • omoo: a narrative of adventures in the south seas (1847)
  • rebdurn (1849)
  • typee: a peep at polynesian life (1846)
  • white-jacket; or, the world in a man-of-war (1850)
• jack london - the sea-wolf (1904)
• james fenimore cooper - the pilot: a tale of the sea (1823)
• joseph conrad
  • ✔ heart of darkness (1899)

• a good man is hard to find and other stories by flannery o'connor
• a streetcar named desire by tennessee williams
• a visitation of spirits by randall kenan
• absalom, absalom! by william faulkner
• ✔ as i lay dying by william faulkner
• barn burning by william faulkner
• beloved by toni morrison
• blackwood farm by anne rice
• everything that rises must converge by flannery o'connor
• ✔ interview with the vampire by anne rice
• light in august by william faulkner
• midnight in the garden of good and evil by john berendt
• nothing gold can stay by ron rash
• the gold-bug by edgar allan poe
• ✔ the heart is a lonely hunter by carson mccullers
• the sound and the fury by william faulkne...

• american international pictures
  • blood bath
  • cry of the banshee
  • die, monster, die
  • night of the eagle
  • scream and scream again
  • spirits of the dead
  • the dunwich horror
  • the oblong box
  • witchfinder general
  • roger corman
    • (1960) house of usher
    • (1961) the pit and the pendulum
    • (1962) the premature burial
    • (1963) the haunted palace
    • (1963) the raven
    • (1964) the masque of the red death
    • (1964) the tomb of ligeia

･ﾟﾟ･｡ copied from shug avery

• addams manor (the addams family franchise)
• arnold's bedroom (hey, arnold, 2004)
• clarissa's bedroom (clarissa explains it all, 1991)
• gilmore's home (gilmore girls, 2007)
• halliwell manor (charmed, 1998)
• max's bedroom (hocus pocus, 1993)
• miss honey's cottage (matilda, 1996)
• mrs. goldfinch's house (barney's great adventure, 1998)
• mrs. w's windchime garden (harriet the spy, 1996)
• owen's manor (practical magic, 1998)
• sabrina's room (chilling adventures of sabrina, 2018)
• sabrina's room (sabrina, 1996)

• a alcova ⋅ aldrava ⋅ alexithymia ⋅ alpenglow ⋅ arandela ⋅ archaic ⋅ ataúde ⋅ atmosphere ⋅ atmospheric ⋅ aurora ⋅ autumn
• b bewitching ⋅ blossom ⋅ bookshelves ⋅ bruma ⋅ bucólico ⋅ burial
• c candle ⋅ catecumeno ⋅ chest ⋅ clepsidra (κλεψύδρα) ⋅ cloak ⋅ cornucópia ⋅ cottage ⋅ coven ⋅ crimson
• d daydream ⋅ december ⋅ derelict ⋅ diáfano ⋅ dream
• e ebúrneo ⋅ eerie ⋅ eldritch ⋅ elf ⋅ elves ⋅ empyrical ⋅ ephemeral ⋅ ethereal ⋅ evening ⋅ evergreen
• f fada ⋅ fairy ⋅ féretro ⋅ fernweh ⋅ floresta ⋅ fog ⋅ folk ⋅ forest ⋅ fúnebre ⋅ funeral
• g gallows ⋅ ghostly ⋅ gloom ⋅ grave
• h haunt ⋅ haunted ⋅ hauntingly ⋅ hiver
• i idílico ⋅ incunábulo ⋅ iridescente...

• anne waldman ⟡
• brenda frazer aka bonnie bremser ⟡
• carolyn cassady ⟡
• denise levertov ⟡
• diane di prima ⟡
• edie parker ⟡
• eileen kaufman ⟡
• elise cowen ⟡
• hettie james ⟡
• jan kerouac ⟡
• jane bowles ⟡
• jay defeo ⟡
• joan brown ⟡
• joan vollmer ⟡
• joyce johnson ⟡

• alice hoffman
  • magic lessons (2021 - sequel)
  • ✔ practical magic (1995)
  • the book of magic (2021 - prequel)
  • the rules of magic (2017 - prequel)
• deborah harkness
  • ✔ a discovery of witches
  • ✔ shadow of the night
  • ✔ the book of life
• hex, by olde heuvelt
• ✔ lolly willowes, by sylvia townsend warner
• the bass rock, by evie wyld
• ✔ the witches of eastwick, by john updike
• the witches, by roald dahl
• the witching hour, by anne rice
• the year of the witching, by alexis henderson

• ana mendieta
  • ecology + feminism
    • focused on a spiritual and physical connection with the earth
  • influenced by afro-cuban traditions
• anne brigman
  • photo secession movement
  • nude women in primordial and naturalistic contexts
    • natural landscapes and trees
• diane arbus
• francesca woodman
  • eerie scenarios
  • influence of gothic literature
• louis dazy