Hosted by Annelise Stephenson Powell · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 8 episodes
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Gothic fiction has always known that the dark is where the truth lives. Reflections on Gothic Fiction is a podcast for readers, writers, and anyone who has ever felt more at home in a crumbling mansion than a drawing room. Join professional writer and author Annelise Stephenson Powell for conversations that range from the origins of the Gothic tradition to its darkest modern expressions, exploring the literature, the folklore, and the human compulsion to tell stories that are uncomfortable.
Annelise Stephenson Powell hosts Reflections on Gothic Fiction, a arts show with 8 episodes published.
Vampires and werewolves don't make something Gothic. They just make it scary. And Annelise has had enough of the confusion. In this episode, she makes the case that Gothic and horror are fundamentally different tradition
Show notesYou think of the American Midwest and you think wholesome, honest, and simple. The heartland. But what if all that openness — that enormous sky, that flat horizon that never arrives — isn't reassuring at all? What if exp
Show notesWhat is the real horror in American Gothic if it's not ghosts and castles? It's the dark history hidden beneath the floorboards? In this episode of Reflections on Gothic Fiction, I step back from regional Gothic traditio
Show notesInto the Cold — Alaskan Gothic and the Terror of the Vast Alaska doesn’t decay. It preserves. And in Gothic fiction, that changes everything. In this episode of Reflections on Gothic Fiction, I explore why Alaskan Gothic
Show notesWhy do the moors in Wuthering Heights feel as volatile as Heathcliff himself? Why does the Australian wilderness offer a horror more profound than any haunted house? In this episode, Annelise explores the thin line betwe
Show notesThis episode was born out of something Annelise feels strongly about. Faith is not the problem. People are. And Gothic fiction captures that like no other tradition. In Episode 4 she traces religion through the gothic tr
Show notesIn Appalachian folklore, the crows don't lie. They don't call out unless something is coming. In this episode, Annelise goes deeper into the specific folklore traditions she wove into All the River Took, as a living lang
Show notesSouthern gothic didn't emerge from thin air. It came from writers sitting inside an enormous unprocessed wound in a region where the past refused to stay buried, and the darkness kept surfacing. In this episode, Annelise
Show notesReflections on Gothic Fiction launches with writer and author Annelise Stephenson Powell asking the questions at the heart of the entire tradition: what is gothic fiction, where did it come from, and why does it still ha
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Reflections on Gothic Fiction is hosted by Annelise Stephenson Powell. The show is categorised under arts (books) and has published 8 episodes.
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