07-28-2011, 08:33 AM
Hello...been reading gothics since I was a teenager...so happy to find other fans and a place to gab about our reads!
My name is Christine...live in L.A. I count my first gothic ever to be The Secret Garden by Francis Burnett...as a child...I know no one ever thinks of that particular book as being a gothic for children, but it really, it has all the elements...dark brooding hunchback master of the manor who hides away grieving for his lost love, a secret skeleton key and locked away garden, screaming and weeping heard in the night....kwim?
I think it was then that I got hooked!
My fave of course as many of you probably will agree is Jane Eyre...but the very next gothic I actually ever read was a Victoria Holt book, House of a Thousand Lanterns...I was probably about 13 at the time...and wow, I was hooked!
nice to "meet" you all!
My name is Christine...live in L.A. I count my first gothic ever to be The Secret Garden by Francis Burnett...as a child...I know no one ever thinks of that particular book as being a gothic for children, but it really, it has all the elements...dark brooding hunchback master of the manor who hides away grieving for his lost love, a secret skeleton key and locked away garden, screaming and weeping heard in the night....kwim?
I think it was then that I got hooked!
My fave of course as many of you probably will agree is Jane Eyre...but the very next gothic I actually ever read was a Victoria Holt book, House of a Thousand Lanterns...I was probably about 13 at the time...and wow, I was hooked!
nice to "meet" you all!
