“I had a gothic phase, and now I’m more edgy chic.”
“I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.”
“Shirley Jackson’s writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.”
“Edinburgh is a sort of gothic fairytale city, and it can be a gothic horror city as well.”
“Mike Mignola’s ‘Hellboy’ comics have a drizzly, musty gothic ambience – the same fetid air that H. P. Lovecraft circulated in his fiction.”
“I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the ‘Parasol Protectorate’ – giggling readers are good.”
“So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity.”
“What I’ve absorbed of the gothic or paranormal has come mainly from films.”
“Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator – I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.”
“I never got too specialized but did like the Southern Gothic writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor.”
“All the great works of art, the cathedrals – the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches – are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God.”
“Most buildings, whether they’re Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.”
“I love all that kind of gothic Bram Stoker kind of thing. I love to get lost in that kind of escapism.”
“I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.”
“I wouldn’t consider myself Goth, but I love Gothic pieces.”
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