The Hallow’s Eve Haunting There’s one thing that confidently can admit haunted houses fascinate me. I have read about many over the years, but none remotely resembling the house on Calle Leiva. According to the testimonies of its neighbors, every…
Requiem is a gothic poem by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, published in the 1890 anthology: Underwoods. It is a short, simple, and intensely musical poem. The interesting thing about Requiem, apart from being one of Robert Louis Stevenson’s best…
Suppose for a moment that we have eternity. Of course, it is a conceptual eternity, not an objective one. A weakness, just one, like the sun or silver, is enough for death to exchange its optional facet for an unquestionable…
“Everything comes in circles. […] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Memorable, impacting and thought – provoking War Quotes quotes that remind…
War poetry that touches us deeply in a period of serious turmoil that takes us back to dark, almost forgotten ages. SONGS AND ROMANCES OF ABSENCES Through the streets I leave something I’m picking up: pieces of my life come…
Day of the Dead (Dia De Los Muertos) is a two day holiday (November 1 and 2) that reunites the living and dead. Families create ofrendas (Offerings) to honor their departed family members that have passed. These altars are decorated…
What Characterizes Gothic Fiction? Gothic fiction is characterized by the elements of fear, horror, the supernatural and darkness, as well as by characters such as vampires, demons, heroes, heroines and villains. Other elements that characterize this type of fiction might…
In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace— Radiant palace—reared its head. In the monarch Thought’s dominion, It stood there! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair! Banners yellow,…
Her lips began to scorch, That juice was wormwood to her tongue, She loath’d the feast: Writhing as one possess’d she leap’d and sung, Rent all her robe, and wrung Her hands in lamentable haste, And beat her breast. Her…
In today’s society there are some values that set the appropriate beauty trends and canons. Millions of people are obsessed with their physical appearance and do anything to try to be perfect. But is it something only current? The truth…
