https://www.amazon.com/Silence-Lambs-Hannibal-Lecter/dp/0312924585 Thomas Harris’ suspense novel The Silence of the Lambs is a must read. Here, I prepared a short quiz to test your understanding of the book, have fun! *Instructions: There are 8 questions to the quiz. Try to answer them on your own and then scroll down to get the answers. Who is Clarice... Continue Reading →
Monsters in Harry Potter
(1) Do you like Harry Potter? I mean, of course you do! If you’re like me, you could read the series over and over again. Next time you do, try to pay more attention to the monsters in the sorcerer’s world. Here are a few: 1. Dementors (2) These are definitely one of the creepiest... Continue Reading →
Matilda
(1) Do you remember this smarty-pants with supernatural powers? Matilda was one of my favourite childhood movies, that’s for sure. You may wonder how the heck this children’s movie is related to gothic. It turns out that this movie contains many gothic motifs. Here are a just a few of them: 1. Ancestral curse (2)... Continue Reading →
The Ultimate Vampire Ranking — Young Adult/Adult Fiction
Nowadays, novels featuring vampires seem to fall from the sky. Any teenager, young adult or even adult interested in fiction or fantasy cannot seem to escape the vampire novel. Such a wide variety and large quantity of “new” stories based on a single creature quickly exhausted the original potential that had already been used up... Continue Reading →