The Classics Club: Rebecca

I read Rebecca for the Gothic event hosted by O of Délaissé last October, but started in an unusual manner:  I first watched Hitchcock's film version (with Joan Fontaine et Laurence Olivier), so that I would get into the mood, before I read the book...

A classic film-noir, it was all I needed to get over a nasty cold that bugged me for a week!  On a serious note, though, I knew Hitchcock would more or less keep the storyline intact, and I really enjoyed the twists to the story, but what about the ending?  Would that be totally different in the book?  

On to the reading, then...

A Gothic event: Wuthering Heights

(cover from among those proposed by Wallace)

How can one person, who is doomed to die shortly after her 30th birthday, who has lived practically in solitude, who has never really wanted to go outside and deal with the rest of world - how does someone like Emily Brontë manage to write such a masterpiece as Wuthering Heights?  

Her one and only adult work that shows human nature in all its wilderness and dark moments still haunts literature afficionados everywhere...

LGBT reading event: The House of the Vampire

With all the rain and the wind that has been filling my days lately, I was in that perfect situation where I could well imagine all the gothic parameters of a novel.  On a particularly stormy night, I read the House of the Vampire, by G.S. Viereck, a gothic/vampire novel that would prove to be innovative, in more ways than one...