Tag Archives: Gothic horror

A Dickinson Poem for Halloween

By Robin Bates | Published: October 27, 2022

For the ultimate in horror, look to the human mind.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "One need not be a chamber to be haunted", Emily Dickinson, ghost stories, Halloween | Comments closed

Repressed Violence in Southern Gothic Lit

By Robin Bates | Published: February 18, 2020

In my course on American Gothic Supernatural lit, I contrasted “Turn of the Scre”w with “Wizard of Oz” and then glanced at Southern Gothic lit.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Deliverance", Edgar Allan Poe, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Good Man Is Hard to Find, gothic supernatural, Henry James, In Cold Blood, James Dickey, L. Frank Baum, Petrified Man, Rose for Emily, Southern Gothic, Truman Capote, Turn of the Screw, William Faulkner, Wizard of Oz | Comments closed