Gothic Story Enthusiast Gifts

Flannery O'Connor

"So, what brings you in today, Mr. Brooks? High anxiety again?"

Out To Lurch

One vampire tricks another behind a mirror.

"The previous tenant was a bit of a shut-in."

"Where’s your sense of Gothic romance?"

"Nevermore." "You don't have to use 'air quoths' every time."

Trilby - 'The sweet melodic phrase.'

"Are you looking for metric or imperial sized neck bolts?"

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

The lonely figure

'It's a little varietal I bottle myself...Type A positive.'

'..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

The Raven in Flight

"What'd you think the zipper on my face was for?"

Trilby - 'Oh my poor girl! my poor girl!'

Bram Stoker

The Portrait of Dorian Gray after one year in lockdown.

Cosmetic Stone Mason.

Trilby - 'Ca fera une fameuse crapule de moins'

"I know we're not supposed to invite them over the threshold dear, but it seemed awfully rude to leave him standing on the doorstep."

"Graveyards always put me ill at ease."

"No monster, when I said 'lend me a hand'..."

Trilby - 'Oh don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?'

'Heathcliff! Oh, Heathcliff!'

'R.I.P. Van Winkle, just sleeping.'

Professor Van Helsing's long and successful career as a vampire hunter, came to a sudden end due to woodworm.

Trilby - 'For Gecko'.

Edgar Allan Poe

Trilby - 'Hast thou found me, o mine enemy?'

Edgar Allan Poe

'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?!?'

"Never think outside the box!"

"I'll have a Bloody Mary. And bring a Witch Hazel and tonic for the little woman."

A Hellish Thing (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner).