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Placing the Gothic: Setting in “Return to Wyldcliffe Heights”

July 23, 2024 Carol Goodman 0

I’ve always loved the Gothic, from my childhood obsession with the 1960s soap opera Dark Shadows; to my first reading of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre; to my delight in modern Gothics like Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican […]

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Seven Deadly Sins of Writers

December 13, 2015 Carol Goodman 0

SLOTH. I’m inherently lazy so I chose this one to write about first since I thought it would be easiest. If you’re lazy like me, you’ll have to learn to work harder because writing is […]

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