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Psychopixi
Fanatic   Posts: 376 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 24/9/2002 at 02:04 AM |
Heya all,
I´m working on a listing of gothic authors and bands for my website. If
anyone can reccomend any to me (especially if they know of a website
dedicated to said person/group) I would be incredibly grateful.
While I am trying to get a list of *mainly* gothic type o´ peoples, it
would be great to know of anyone else that you think is worth reading /
listening to.
I have a few authors (http://psychopixi.com/gothic_literature.htm) and
quite a large list of groups (http://psychopixi.com/groups.htm) online
already; so you can see who I have already mentioned.
Any help *whatsoever* would be simply brilliant. Thank you. ____________________
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
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Lenore
Occasional Poster   Posts: 22 Registered: 25/7/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 24/9/2002 at 05:14 AM |
| I took a quick look at your list of authors, and found Anne Rice missing.
Definantly a gothic writer. Nice list, by the way! Now I know where to go
when inspiration is getting low :-D ____________________
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate its contents." - H.P.Lovecraft
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KatB
Fanatic  Posts: 241 Registered: 16/7/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 24/9/2002 at 06:38 AM |
Nice!
But there are some gaps:
Clive Barker
Ambrose Bierce
Madame Blavatsky
Nick Cave
Lewis Carrol
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Philip K. Dick
Umberto Eco
Sheridan Le Fanu
Neil Gaiman
Brothers Grimm
Ursula Le Guin
Elizabeth Hand
C.S. Lewis
Herman Melville
Jeff Noon
Mervyn Peak
John Polidori
Marquis de Sade
Sir Walter Scott
Mary Shelley
Robert Louis Stephenson
Donna Tartt
JRR Tolkien
Horace Walpole
HG Wells
William Butler Yeats
- Don´t know if you think Aleister Crowley and Anton La Vey are relevant,
I´d include them.
I´ll probably remember some more in two minutes!
(Many times two minutes later: OK, I´m stopping now... Got a bit carried
away!) ____________________
All stressed out and no one to choke...
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KatB
Fanatic Posts: 241 Registered: 16/7/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 24/9/2002 at 06:42 AM |
And oh, pretty-please put this on the band-list : http://www.magicka.net
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Comedian
Fanatic  Posts: 213 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 24/9/2002 at 01:22 PM |
I´m p[robably not gunna win any friends for this, but here goes:
Mark Twain
Charles Dickens
P.G. Wodehouse
Hunter S. Thompson
Kahlil Ghibran
Omar Kayek(not sure about the spelling)
Buddha(the dhammaphada)
:evil: ____________________
Make way for the bad guy!
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KatB
Fanatic Posts: 241 Registered: 16/7/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 25/9/2002 at 06:09 AM |
| Why not? Those are excellent authors! And why the grim face...? Sunshine
:razz: ____________________
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Comedian
Fanatic Posts: 213 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 25/9/2002 at 08:24 AM |
Well, a lot of people do not consider such novels to be in a gothic
reference. But, in dealing with the characters within the book, you
usually find that at least one character that is the focal point of the
story has an IQ much higher than those around him(or her, as the case may
be, but I will default to the male noun for simplicity) and often finds the
actions of his companions to be either silly and redundant and their
opinions on the matter uninformed or outright ignorant.
While certain websites will bring criticism to the concept that all goths
think they, nationally polled, are 110% smarter than their peers, it is not
on average to find most of us have a literary observation bent and thusly
find our own perspectives mimicking those of Mark Twain Dave Barry for the
ones with a sense of humorist nihilism about themselves(the madness of a
society that nominates it´s criminals and later elects them to power rather
than simply catching them, if I can´t seem to do this one simple task how
is it everyone can?) or in a bizarre bent that leads to philosophical
insight on the meaning of the curves and bends of our society and our lives
around the need to cater to the weaker-minded individuals.
On a side note, I´m making most of my psuedo-intellectual fuckwit posts at
god-forbid in the a.m., so if any of the sentences seem incoherent or
outright rambling, let me know. ____________________
Make way for the bad guy!
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MorteAscendo
Member   Posts: 190 Registered: 6/5/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 25/9/2002 at 11:13 PM |
| Robert R. McCammon...the best!! well..crazy ass shit...if you ask me ____________________
"Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. I'm a schizophrenic, and so am I".
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KatB
Fanatic Posts: 241 Registered: 16/7/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 26/9/2002 at 01:04 AM |
Comedian: Well, I see your point, _but_ I thought most people here agreed
to fuck the stereotypes... Not literally.
And if stereotyping _is_ desired - didn´t Mark Twain write an excellent
ghost story?
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IamSquid
Extreme Fanatic   Posts: 658 Registered: 27/5/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 26/9/2002 at 01:17 AM |
Although Stephen Crane isn´t a gothic author, "Maggie: A Girl of the
Streets" would probably appeal to people with gothic tastes. Same as alot
of Mark Twain´s stuff.
Which was that Mark Twain story where the angel goes into the small town
and convinces everybody how they´d be much happier if they were dead? ____________________
i wanted to die, and then it progressed into wanting everyone else to
die so i could watch, and then me die.
-ickgirl
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Meranda_Jade
Fanatic  Posts: 511 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 26/9/2002 at 06:52 AM |
| Ray Bradbury ____________________
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Comedian
Fanatic Posts: 213 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 26/9/2002 at 09:17 AM |
Most of Mark Twain´s ghost stories were old cowboy stories told sitting
around the fire. He just put them into print and took out all the "like
this" and "y´all"s.
As for the angel bit, I´m not sure. ____________________
Make way for the bad guy!
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Psychopixi
Fanatic Posts: 376 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 29/9/2002 at 07:39 AM |
| Thanks guys, input is muchly appreciated. Now all I have to do is wait
until I get my computer back from the nasty repair men who´ve kidnapped it
and I can put all of your suggestions up. Thank you!!! ____________________
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
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Sardonic-Pain
Fanatic  Posts: 248 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 30/9/2002 at 10:50 AM |
| Oscar Wilde most definetly a great writer ____________________
My Life is like a porno-Without the sex-Just the weird music
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