261 Quotes About Gothic

She knew this wouldn't lead anywhere good, but she couldn't resist all the good she'd pass through before she got to the bad.

But at night, when the shadows rose to their full height and darkness came to lay claim over the manor and its vast grounds, that same beauty turned poisonous and and those gardens became a dark carnival of unseen dangers, a bottomless sea of unspeakable grotesqueries. It was at night, always at night, that the serpent came to Eden.

Halloween is a celebration of the inversion of reality and a necessary Gothic hat-tip to the darker aspects of life, death and ourselves.

Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things

But sometimes, when no one is looking, little girls like to do forbidden things.

The pine trees were rows of knife-blades whispering: “Fall upon us!” and in the gathering darkness the torrent roared and howled, beating against its rocking prison walls with the frenzy of an everlasting despair. “Padre!” Arthur rose, shuddering, and drew back from the precipice. “It is like hell.” “No, my son,” Montanelli answered softly, “it is only like a human soul.

Clocks ticking, wasted time, reminded [Poe]The coffin waits and pages lie half doneIn desolation. Anonymity’sCurse frightens writers more than RoderickEncountering his sister’s open crypt.- - from my poem "Poe and His Women" - -

... where purl with ravishing music the scented waters that come from the grotto-born river Narg.

She gazed into my eyes, lips parting, beautiful. In that moment, she seemed to glow, for she did not know it yet, but she was falling in love. All of her vital signs pointed to it. 
“Come for me,” she whispered. “I want to feel you inside me. Breed me like an animal.