Book Review: Dracula – By Bram Stoker

The definitive gothic novel, Dracula holds it's place not just as one of the key standards for Gothic fiction, but also as the chief progenitor of vampire lore as a whole. It may have been present before, but here Bram Stoker set the norm for what we expect from the realm of vampires. The text … Continue reading Book Review: Dracula – By Bram Stoker →

Gothic Cathedrals & Medieval Symbolism

In the realm of thought the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a time of scholasticism, in the realm of politics a time of guilds and the roots of nationalism, in the realm of religion a time of monastic reform, and in the realm of expression it was a time of the Gothic, in painting, sculpture, and primarily … Continue reading Gothic Cathedrals & Medieval Symbolism →