07-12-2010, 04:25 PM
I would like to offer some thoughts on the question in my previous post. I was curious to see if the appeal of these stories for other readers was similar to mine. Since the time I was quite small, I have loved books and I have read widely in many genres--Fiction and non-fiction. But I always come back to these books=these sixties and seventies gothic stories. Sometimes I literally crave reading one! I think there is something of nostalgia in it for me, a hearkening back to my youth, if you will. But in the stories themselves there is also a strong element of attraction. I think it is the righting of a universe gone wrong--a human desire for goodness, order and peace to triumph where there is evil, calamity and discord. Therefore the morally pure hero and heroine are most satisfying to me. When it all comes right for a likeable and admirable heroine it tilts the universe a bit more in the right direction. Perhaps it is the ultimate good and righteousness I rejoice in. Perhaps everything in us ultimately desires Him.