EPISODE 171– The New Gothics Panel

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The panelists diagnose the elements of Gothic fiction, discuss what’s gothic about the Pacific North West, the South West, Texas, and The Hudson Valley, consider decentering trauma, and recommend their favorite Gothic artworks.  

-Panelists-

Joshua Millican (Teleportasm, Dope Foot)

Clay Vermulm (Rain Shadows, Crevasse)

Scotty Milder (Dead Billy, Horror from the High Desert podcast)

Mo Moshaty (Night Tide Magazine, Nix Horror Collective)

Johnny Compton (Dead First, The Spite House)

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Recommendations

Clay:

Favorite Classic Novels: 

• Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) 
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving) 
• Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson) 
• Dracula (Stoker)
• Masque of the Red Death (Poe) 
• Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier) 
• Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) 

Favorite Contemporary Novels: 

• House of Leaves
• Pour one for the Devil (Theodore Van Alst) 
• Mapping the Interior (Graham Jones) 
• Diavola (Jennifer Thorne) 
• Liminal Zone (Jung Ito) 
• The Deep (Katsu) 
• Presence (Steven Soderbergh) 
• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Alvin Schwartz w/Gammel illustrations) 
• LingHun (Ai Jiang) 

Favorite Films: 

• Nosferatu (Eggers) 
• Attachment (Gabriel Bier Gislason) 
• The Pretty Think that Lives in the House (Osgood Perkins) 
• Haunting of Hill House (Mike Flanagan)  
• Woman in Black (James Watkins- written by Susan Hill and Jane Goldman) 
• The Others (Alejandro Amenabar) 
• The Orphanage (Del Toro) 

PNW Gothic is more in line with Isolation horror/gothic tales, with more modern/still present historical evils such as:  

• The Wind (Emma Tammi and Teresa Sutherland)
• The Witch (Eggers) 
• The Wasteland (David Casademunt) 
• His House (Remi Weekes) 

Mo:

White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

The Haunting of Hill House and/or We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Good House by Tananarive Due

The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

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