Look close, but not too closely. M.R. James’s The Mezzotint is Gothic horror about a dull engraving that changes the more it is studied. The scholars who have it in their possession research it—yet still have no explanation for the phenomenon en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ghost_S... #GothicMoodShortStories

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"Dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths" –sourced from the text of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s novella Carmilla www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1... #ReadWithMeIMC #BookSky

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A man awakens in a darkened cell. The executioners in Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum design tortures that toy with the mind: a pit you can’t see in the dark, walls that close in to crush you, and a pendulum that swings slower than a heartbeat en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wor... #GothicMoodShortStories

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The story arc of Theo is one of the most chilling aspects of The Children of Men. He begins a private diary filled with detached sentimentalism and self-regarding reflections of how oligarchies take shape. Theo can discern every folly of others—except when looking at himself. #ReadWithMeIMC #BookSky

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A murderer insists he is sane. Repetition becomes the pulse of a guilty mind as each insistence about his own sanity beats ever faster, ever louder—until the heart beneath the floorboards speaks. “It is the beating of his hideous heart!” en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mystery... #GothicMoodShortStories

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