http://gothicfaerytales.com For the Darker Side of Faery Tales Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:20:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 1986 Interview with Angela Carter by Rosemary Carroll BOMB 17/Fall 1986, LITERATURE Angela Carter's 1979 collection of original Fairy Tales, The Bloody Chamber was the book that made me want to write. I found it  in the 1980s in the text book section at the University of Washington bookstore as part of an ... http://gothicfaerytales.com/2010/06/14/1986-interview-with-angela-carter/ Like many girls, I had one of these music boxes. Out of such simple memories are our dark dreams made... http://gothicfaerytales.com/2010/05/18/creepy-music-box/ Time for a change of pace. This is a brilliant video that shows the artistic influences in Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. There is Nosferatu, Jean Cocteau's masterpiece Belle et la Bette and some German Romantic paintings in the mix. The Pre-Raphaelites and the Symbolists were very strongly referenced in ... http://gothicfaerytales.com/2010/05/10/artistic-influences-in-bram-stokers-dracula/ Salome: the Seventh Queen: 16:The Hall of Ishtar by Aline deWinter On the crown of a hill, the Rose Palace of Ishtar shone like ivory behind a many towered gate of carnelian and gold. As Salome and her handmaidens  approached, the huge copper doors swung open to a chamber of fire and ... http://gothicfaerytales.com/2010/05/04/salome-the-seventh-queen-16the-hall-of-ishtar/ Salome: The Seventh Queen:15:The Green Angel by Aline deWinter The song of the ney, high and wild, floated above the whispers of many serpents deep as the stones below the earth. The Princess was a lighted torch, a flame undulating  to sounds voluptuous, and strange. The music grew louder and faster. She ... http://gothicfaerytales.com/2010/04/17/salome-the-seventh-queen15the-green-angel/ Salome: The Seventh Queen:14: Rapture by Aline deWinter The Fifth Gate loomed high. It was built of gray stones dusted with white, lacy imprints of snowflakes under brown threadbare leaves. A gate like an intricate veil stretched between two pillars upon which two angels stood with wide open wings, whose mouths and ... http://gothicfaerytales.com/2010/02/24/salome-the-seventh-queen14-rapture/ Salome raced back to her serving maids. > The hyenas shrieked and the wheat began to ruffle as the invisible pack of wild dogs came after her. Aaliyah and Etana turned around frantically calling Salome's name in all directions, their voices drowned out by the music and the cries and the barking ... http://gothicfaerytales.com/2010/02/13/salome-the-seventh-queen-13-slither/ Salome: The Seventh Queen: 12  : The Hyenas by Aline deWinter The wheat field glowed and bent in a slight breeze. They walked on for a while longer. Nothing changed. > “How long have we been here?” Aaliyah sighed falling to the ground in exhaustion. > "Give me the head of Jokannaan,” Salome whispered sharply ... http://gothicfaerytales.com/2010/02/02/salome-the-seventh-queen-12-the-hyenas/ Salome: The Seventh Queen: 11: The Golden Land by Aline deWinter < On the other side of the lake the Fourth Gate towered over them. Carved of black obsidian over-laid with gold, it was, incised with symbols of life in death barely visible under silver dust and matted yellow vines. A tall, wraith ... http://gothicfaerytales.com/2010/01/20/salome-the-seventh-queen-11-endless-gold/ Salome: the Seventh Queen: 10: The Mysterious Lake by Aline deWinter > <? “Oh, gatekeeper, open the gate! Open the gate so I may enter!” Salome cried. <? “Oh, no, Mistress!” cried Aaliyah. “Let us go back!” <? The Third gate opened, and the Gatekeeper, clad in robes of copper flame, reached forth and pulled off the Princess’s ... http://gothicfaerytales.com/2010/01/10/salome-the-seventh-queen-10-the-mysterious-lake/