Gothic Literature Aficionado Pillows

"I'll see what he says. He's the most level-headed of the family."

Bending beneath the weight of his burden, he lay it upon the moss (Atala).

Trilby - 'Repentance'

Out To Lurch

"Oh, mournful and terrible engine of horror and crime—of agony and of death, not asparagus again!"

Trilby - 'The sweet melodic phrase.'

"The new OS update should fix the bug that makes you want to murder everyone."

The lonely figure

'..It's just that with all your amazing powers of deduction and elimination, Holmes, I'm just a little surprised that the best solution you can come up with for seeing off the hound of the Baskervilles, is to 'chase them across the moors with a hoover. up

Bram Stoker

The Portrait of Dorian Gray after one year in lockdown.

Trilby - 'Dodor in his glory'.

'I've checked his appointments. The only opening is for 'nevermore'.'

The Pride of Frankenstein

'Heathcliff! Oh, Heathcliff!'

"Have you tried turning him off and on again?"

"So there you are—I thought I heard someone squishing moodily about the moors."

The Raven - The Study at Night

'I'm telling you I don't know where your goat is, look in the classifieds.'

"You lab assistants are all alike, you're only interested in a woman for one thing...her brain!"

Pass the SPF 20,000

Poems to Spookify

Trilby - 'Au clair de la lune'.

'I'm not trying to take away from the fact that you are a twisted, brilliant genius. . .but what is with the size of this bloody forehead?!?'

Trilby - 'I suppose you do all this kind of thing for mere amusement, Mr. Wynne?'

"Yes, there is a pre-existing condition. I was once dead."

Trilby - 'May heaven go with her!'

"You're still in bed?"

Trilby - 'Les glougloux du vin a quat' sous...'

Trilby - 'I will not! I will not!'

"I kind of miss the pendulum."

The ghost's walk

"What an IDIOT!! He's got the wrong type of 'steak'..! But I'll play along for the moment..."

Trilby - 'Voila l'espayce de hom ker jer swee!'

'He just loves the hokey-pokey, doesn't he?'