Sorry if this is a stupid question but... What's LSUA? I see that you tag things with it but I can't figure out what it stands for. Maybe it's because it's 2am... These late-night browsing sessions do get a little out of hand.
A snicketophile reader, confused by mysterious initials? O, poetic justice.
LSUA stands for: “Lemony Snicket’s Unauthorized Autobiography”.
TBL stands for “The Beatrice Letters”.
FU:13SI stands for “Filer Under: 13 suspicious incidents”.
TBB:RE stands for “The Bad Beginning: Rare Edition”.
These are all the supplementary materials acknowledged as 100% canonical. The jury is still out on “The Dismal Dinner”, “A calendar of Unfortunate Events”, “The Puzzling Puzzles”… Because we don’t really know if these were actually written/approved by Daniel Handler. I sometimes refer to their contents in my theories but extreme caution is advised.
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i get anxiety because idk what will come after postmodernism
Hi there, just wondering if you have any recommendations for classic (?) gothic literature (stuff like Dracula or Picture of Dorian gray). Thanks!
Yes ? Yes, yes, yes, very much so. I cannot get enough when it comes to gothic literature (and what sprung from it). Here goes :
The Turn of the Screw, Henry JamesThe Lifted Veil, George EliotSeven Gothic Tales, Isak DinesenJane Eyre, Charlotte BrontëVillette, Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights, Emily BrontëMelmoth the Wanderer, Charles MaturinThe Italian, Ann RadcliffeThe Castle of Otranto, Horace WalpoleThe Horla and Other Stories, Guy de MaupassantThe Coffee-Pot and Other Stories, Théophile GautierMy Cousin Rachel, Daphné du MaurierRebecca, Daphné du MaurierDon’t Look Now, Daphné du MaurierFrankenstein, Mary Bysshe ShelleyThe Castle of Argol, Julien GracqThe Unicorn, Iris MurdochThe Moonstone, Wilkie CollinsLa Vénus d’Ille, Prosper MériméeThe Haunting of Hillhouse, Shirley JacksonWe Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley JacksonThe Shining, Stephen KingCarrie, Stephen KingCarmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le FanuThe Queen of Spades, Alexandr PushkinTales, Edgar Allan PoeThe House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
—and more. Early gothic fiction shattered into a multiplicity of related literary movements and ideas that are still going strong today; reading one gothic novel automatically brings you to seek another which is either fully cited, or subtly praised in its successor. Some of these are still on my to-be-read list, but I had to suggest them anyway—haunted castles ! puritanic secrecy ! slow psychological warfare ! wild moors and devil pacts ! What could go wrong ?