Eulogies

Though many of the best Gothic writers and artists are long dead, their work lives reluctantly on through Eulogies on the Gothic Dispatch. Here, meet the writers and artists that shaped the Gothic literature and art that you know – including some whose lives (and deaths) might have slipped past you unnoticed. Discover recommendations for building a deeper, darker understanding of the Gothic. And rest assured that, like all of us, you’ll be among the best Gothic writers and artists in no time.

These are Eulogies, introductions to Gothic masters and servants.

Edward Gorey photographed in the window of a department store.

There Was Just One, and Now It’s Dead: Remembering Edward Gorey

Posted on 21 February 202521 February 2025 by The Gothic Dispatch

During his lifetime, Edward Gorey was presumed to be English, Victorian and dead. One of them, at least, is now true.

Join me in marking what would have been the 100th birthday of the Grandfather of Goth with a whistle-stop tour of his life, work and death. Hear his stories of a perfectly ordinary childhood that was really anything but. Follow him to New York City and the Gotham Book Mart, where he became a cult icon. And see if you can succeed where he could not in escaping the long shadow of Dracula.

Quite at Home in Hell: A Eulogy to Gothic Master Painter Henry Fuseli

Posted on 10 October 202410 October 2024 by The Gothic Dispatch

If there’s a word for the sensation of recognising something from a dream, I’m sure I don’t know it. But the proliferation of Henry Fuseli’s work means we all know the feeling.

Tonight, light a candle for Henry Fuseli, whose painting The Nightmare has influenced 250 years of Gothic imagery. See his dark and obscure interpretations of some of English literature’s greatest characters. Uncover the lies that inspired some of his finest and most Gothic work. And wonder, much like Fuseli’s own tormented dreamer, where you’ve seen all this before.