Gothic was named after the Visigoths, the barbarian European tribes who defeated and sacked Ancient Rome.
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Writing in the Language of Angels
One of the big problems when writing about the after life or spiritual realms is that the afterlife, if there is one, is an unknown quantity. An author can’t meet up and interview a spiritual being for research in the way they would, say, a police officer.
Continue reading “Writing in the Language of Angels”Edgar Allan Poe and “Genre” Writing.
Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” was published in 1845.
In the story a mesmerist (a kind of hypnotist) puts a dying man called Valdemar in a suspended hypnotic state at the moment of death.
Continue reading “Edgar Allan Poe and “Genre” Writing.”Kenostic vs. Heuristic Storytelling
I once attended a lecture on the Polish-born English novelist Joseph Conrad. The lecturer talked about two types of text.
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