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Noteworthy Link – The Ghost Club

LitQuotes Blog Posted on October 7, 2012 by LitQuotesApril 10, 2013

Noteworthy Link

What do Charles Dickens, Algernon Blackwood, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and W.B.Yeats all have in common? They were members of The Ghost Club.

The Ghost Club is the oldest organization in the world associated with research of psychic events and issues.   The group was founded in 1862 and exists today. Their website states:

Today the Ghost Club is a non-profit, social club run by an elected Council of volunteers and its purpose remains true to its roots; the Ghost Club offers open-minded, curious individuals the opportunity to debate, explore and investigate unexplained phenomena with like-minded people and record the results for posterity.

 

Posted in Charles Dickens, Noteworthy Links, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Tagged Algernon Blackwood, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, W.B.Yeats | Leave a reply

Frankenweenie Trailer

LitQuotes Blog Posted on October 6, 2012 by LitQuotesOctober 21, 2012

What do you get when you combine Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein with Tim Burton?  Frankenweenie!  This fun, Halloween treat is at theaters now.  Here’s the trailer . . .

Posted in LitQuotes in Movies | Tagged Frankenstein, Mary Shelley | Leave a reply

New Facebook Page

LitQuotes Blog Posted on October 4, 2012 by LitQuotesFebruary 10, 2016

I’ve just made a Facebook page for LitQuotes.  I’ve also redone the two quote photos that I’ve posted so far so that they’ll look better when you share them with your Facebook friends.

To celebrate the Facebook page, I made a new quote photo.  This one features a quote by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

A wave of panic passed over the vessel, and these rough and hardy men, who feared no mortal foe, shook with terror at the shadows of their own minds. ~ Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

 

Posted in Quote Photos, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Site News | Tagged knights and ladies quotes, scary quotes, shadows quotes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel, spooky quotes | Leave a reply

Charles Dickens Walking Tours

LitQuotes Blog Posted on October 3, 2012 by LitQuotesOctober 3, 2012

I really, really need to plan a trip to London.  I’d be sure to go on the Charles Dickens Walking Tour.  This video gives you an idea about what the tour would be like. It takes us to the George and Vulture, the home away from home for Pickwick in The Pickwick Papers.

Posted in Charles Dickens | Tagged Charles Dickens | Leave a reply

Five Classic Novels Combined With a Touch of Horror

LitQuotes Blog Posted on October 2, 2012 by LitQuotesApril 25, 2017

In honor of Halloween I put together this list of five classic novels that have been rewritten with a different twist.  What happens when classic literature crosses with the horror genre?  You get titles like . . . .

Jane SlayerJane Slayre, our plucky demon-slaying heroine, is a courageous orphan who spurns the detestable vampyre kin who raised her, sets out on the advice of her ghostly uncle to hone her skills as the fearless slayer she’s meant to be. When she takes a job as a governess at a country estate, she falls head-over-heels for her new master, Mr. Rochester, only to discover he’s hiding a violent werewolf in the attic–in the form of his first wife. Vampyres, zombies, and werewolves transform Charlotte Bronte’s unforgettable masterpiece into an eerie paranormal adventure that will delight and terrify.

 

Zombies

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”

So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers—and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield.

 

Heathcliff: Vampire of Wuthering Heights starts with a mysterious letter.  Lockwood, a law clerk in London and amateur vampire stalker, must investigate, no matter the peril to himself. Traveling into the misty moors of Yorkshire, Lockwood finds the strange owner of Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff, and becomes trapped in the evil enveloping all of Yorkshire. Driven nearly to madness by his unrequited love for Catherine Earnshaw, Heathcliff roams the moors and is transformed into one of the undead, a vampire. But when he returns to claim his beloved, he finds that she too is forever changed and cannot become one of the undead.  Heathcliff begins a cycle of madness that might satisfy his blood lust, but never his heart’s desire. Now he reveals the history of carnage and revenge to his most unwilling listener and next victim…

 


 

Grave Expectations

Heaven knows, we need never be ashamed of our wolfish cravings. . . .

In Grave Expectations bristly, sensitive, and meat-hungry Pip is a robust young whelp, an orphan born under a full moon. Between hunting escaped convicts alongside zombified soldiers, trying not to become one of the hunted himself, and hiding his hairy hands from the supernaturally beautiful and haughty Estella, whose devilish moods keep him chomping at the bit, Pip is sure he will die penniless or a convict like the rest of his commonly uncommon kind.  But then a mysterious benefactor sends him to London for the finest werewolf education money can buy.

 

Sea MonstersSense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities. As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While sensible Elinor falls in love with Edward Ferrars, her romantic sister Marianne is courted by both the handsome Willoughby and the hideous man-monster Colonel Brandon. Can the Dashwood sisters triumph over meddlesome matriarchs and unscrupulous rogues to find true love? Or will they fall prey to the tentacles that are forever snapping at their heels? This masterful portrait of Regency England blends Jane Austen’s biting social commentary with ultraviolent depictions of sea monsters biting. It’s survival of the fittest—and only the swiftest swimmers will find true love!

Posted in Everything Else | Tagged Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Great Expectations, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Wuthering Heights | Leave a reply

The Horror

LitQuotes Blog Posted on October 1, 2012 by LitQuotesDecember 3, 2017

Oedipus Rex

Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud. ~ Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

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Posted in Quote Photos | Tagged horror quotes, Oedipus Rex, scary quotes, Sophocles, spooky quotes | Leave a reply

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