Discussion: Resources and References • Mansions, Moonlight, and Menace: The Gothic Romance • BookLikes

#1 by: Linda Hilton date: 8 years ago discussions stats

Keeping this thread primarily for information on the gothic romance genre, reference books, articles, links, blogs, databases, and so on. Feel free to add anything you come across!

#2 by: Linda Hilton date: 8 years ago discussions stats

(I'm having difficulty with the URLs on this. They don't want to show up as active links. Maybe it's just me?)
(It's undoubtedly just me. Will try again with MbD's instructions.) (Nope, that didn't work either.) (Ha! I think I got it!)

Thanks to member Person of Interest:

Sara Boyle's blog - My Love-Haunted Heart - is a great resource for vintage gothics with reviews, cover art and links to other gothic sites: https://hauntedhearts.wordpress.com/

She also blogged about the Gothic Lending Library which has several thousand titles now held by McDaniel College’s Hoover Library in Westminster, Maryland. Here's a link that includes a database of authors and titles: http://www.gothicjournal.com/gothic-lending-library

#3 by: Murder by Death date: 8 years ago discussions stats

Linda - if you highlight the URL in your post, then click the link button at the bottom (the last button) it will wrap the link tag around your highlighted text. Where it puts URL, paste your link (don't keep the letters URL - paste over those).

Sort of looks like this (adding spaces so it will show up here):
[ url = "http://www.gothicjournal.com/gothic-lending-library" ] your link text here [ / url ]

#4 by: Linda Hilton date: 8 years ago discussions stats

Digging through some of my own reference works, I discovered I have a copy of

Women's Gothic and Romantic Fiction
A reference guide
by
Kay Mussell
(c) 1981
Greenwood Press.

#5 by: Abandoned by user date: 8 years ago discussions stats

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The Mussell book looks interesting.

#6 by: Abandoned by user date: 8 years ago discussions stats

GR has a few listopias for gothic romance:

20th Century Gothic Romance

Gothic romantic suspense of a bygone era

Zebra gothics '80's & '90s

#7 by: Linda Hilton date: 8 years ago discussions stats

Somewhere in the Abyss I also have a copy of Joanna Russ's essay "Someone is trying to kill me and I think it's my husband," but my search was interrupted. While I was flipping through one of the many over-stuffed 3-ring binders, a large but fortunately DEAD black spider fell out. Had it been alive, I would still be screaming.

#8 by: Linda Hilton date: 7 years ago discussions stats

Another resource, and this one has a free Kindle edition. It's from 1921, so good historical perspective.

The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance

#9 by: Linda Hilton date: 7 years ago discussions stats

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Joanna Russ's essay was collected in her

To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction.

I just ordered a used copy. This is a book I MUST have!

#10 by: Abandoned by user date: 7 years ago discussions stats

This looks like an interesting book - also a Joanna Russ:

How to Suppress Women's Writing