Category Archives: Gothic Horror Characters
ICHF: The Martians of H.G. Wells
The War of the Worlds is technically an Imperial Gothic Horror story. The Imperial Gothic, for those of you who aren’t horror lit nerds, is a subgenre of Gothic Horror that combines the normal themes of evil coming from the … Continue reading →
ICHF: King Kong
The 1933 film King Kong is a classic example of an Imperial Gothic Horror story, albeit with a more modern twist than the Imperial Gothic tales of the Victorian era. Powerful, rich white men from a country that has become … Continue reading →
ICHF: Karswell and His Demon
Like many a strange theater kid, one of the films that defined my adolescence was The Rocky Horror Picture Show. While I imagine most are drawn to that film for its raw sexual energy, I was drawn instead to its … Continue reading →
ICHF: Jack Skellington
My definition for the horror genre is pretty simple: any story that aims to consistently scare the audience is horror story. It’s broad, sure, but that really is the thing that ties all horror stories together – regardless of specific … Continue reading →
ICHF: The Weird Sisters
We’re going as classic as it gets with this entry, folks: meet the Weird Sisters from William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Now, some of you may be thinking, “Shakespeare? Shakespeare isn’t horror – unless you count the horror I feel at having … Continue reading →
ICHF: The Red Death
Edgar Allen Poe is… just really brilliant. Just marvelous. He’s one of the best horror writers of all time, and I believe that strongly enough to declare it as an objective fact. He’s just… he’s just really great. When I … Continue reading →
ICHF: The Beast
Over the Garden Wall is a (fairly) recent cartoon miniseries that feels very, very old. It specifically feels like the kind of ghost stories that were told in the late 1700’s/early 1800’s – stories like “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, … Continue reading →
