THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN.
Gauffered with a rope and star pattern using heated metal stamps and rollers.
Gaufffering describes the act of applying a patterned decoration to the text block edges of a book. This type of ornamentation is used most often on books with gold or gilded edges.
#GaufferedEdges
Ben Stahl’s illustrations for Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House.
Anaïs Nin, from “The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1939–1944“
Mt. Tamalpais, California // Paul Bundy
“What does it even mean to write a poem? It means today I’m correcting my mistakes. It means I don’t want to be lonely.”
— Jennifer Chang, from “Again a Solstice,” Some Say the Lark (Alice James Books, 2017)
This extract from a Vanessa Kirby and Katherine Waterston interview... ok fruits
One of the most important themes in Female Gothic fiction is the freedom granted to women, as Moers states “[Women] can scuttle miles along castle corridors, descend into dungeons, and explore secret chambers without a chaperone, because the Gothic castle, however ruined, is an indoor and therefore freely female space”.
Overlook Abbey: Whispers of the Female Gothic in Stephen King’s The Shining, Justin Montgomery
the ✘-files | 4x17: tempus fugit
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Woah hold up, it’s Salmon Slammin Saturday