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Michelle Arsic, Gothic and Gruesome Connections 

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Michelle Arsic, Gothic and Gruesome Connections 

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The Ghosts, The Ghouls, And The Otherwise Ghastly. - Amelia Dodson

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The Ghosts, The Ghouls, And The Otherwise Ghastly. - Amelia Dodson

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Ghosts, Bodies, and Secrets: The Gothic Lives On- Jasmyne Tran

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Ghosts, Bodies, and Secrets: The Gothic Lives On- Jasmyne Tran

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Whitman's "Song of Myself," Section 49 is a reflection of this as he incorporates death in a hauntingly beautiful way. Death is what draws him to his subject, making this a gothic piece in that he sees the way that death links all living souls makes life and the afterlife indistinct. Conversely, in "The Haunting of Hill House" (2018), the subject of death, mourning, and memories haunting a family is presented as a reflection of this theme in that the spirits that haunt this family are the result of the grief that cannot be interred.

Link: Netflix page "The Haunting of Hill House"

Kingston’s "No Name Woman" is a story of how silence and shame can come back to haunt generations. This is evident in the character of the unnamed aunt in Kingston’s story whose ghost is a symbol of family secrets and the punishment of those women who overstep the bounds of what is expected of them. This is also evident in "Coco" (2017), where the story is one of remembering, family secrets, and spirits of the dead. Here, even as "Coco" looks positive and inspiring, the negative aspect of the story is one of ghosts and the afterlife.

Link: Disney/Pixar page for Coco

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Haunted by Memory, Awed by Death: The Gothic Lives On.

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Haunted by Memory, Awed by Death: The Gothic Lives On.

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Leclaire Lindor

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  Bailey Gorman - Echoes of the Gothic: Haunting Voices Then and Now

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  Bailey Gorman - Echoes of the Gothic: Haunting Voices Then and Now

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Poe’s “The Raven” shows how grief and obsession can turn someone’s mind into a haunted house. The speaker can’t escape the ghost of Lenore, and his sorrow becomes something supernatural. The same thing happens in The Haunting of Hill House, where the ghosts represent trauma and loss that never go away. Both use gothic settings and haunting to show how the past keeps living inside us, no matter how much we try to forget it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eqxXqJDmcY

In “No Name Woman,” Kingston tells the story of a woman erased by her family’s shame, becoming a kind of ghost in their memory. The gothic comes through in the haunting silence and family secret that can’t stay buried. Crimson Peak also centers on women trapped by patriarchy, where ghosts reveal hidden violence and secrets of the past. Both show how women’s suffering becomes a haunting presence, turning social judgment into something dark and gothic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oquZifON8Eg

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THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE Official Trailer (2018) Netflix, Horror Movie

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Mortality and Nature: Dont Disturb the Flow- Naomi Humphries 

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Mortality and Nature: Dont Disturb the Flow- Naomi Humphries 

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Kingston’s “No name Woman” is a memoir that examines the memories of a cross-cultural family and the shame associated with secrets. The HBO series Westworld shows viewers how society silences the women who dare defy expectations. Characters originally programmed to play victims become self-aware in hopes of escaping a simulation and finally have a voice of their own. Similarly, Kingston’s aunt was shamed and ignored by her family for defying their expectations and bearing a bastard child. Both stories use gothic tropes like secrecy, haunting (of memories), and silence to explore how those who break the rules are punished.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEkZdgWu7mM

The video game Elden Ring puts players inside the world of the “Tarnished” a purgatory referred to as the Land Between; a world torn between life and death. By nature, Elden Ring is gothic and the story is quite tragic which reminds me of Section 49 of Whitman’s “Song of Myself”. In the story Whitman views death not as an end but a harmonious continuation of life’s natural cycle. Contrarily, Elden Ring defies human arrogance and allows players to transcend mortality through chaos and dominance. These stories share Gothic tropes like death, but Whitman’s world seems to embrace death in hopes of eternal life, whereas Elden Ring’s world becomes cursed and therefore denies the Tarnished their ending. Death.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_03kFqWfqs

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Post by Daniel Word

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Graves, Ghosts, and Grief: Gothic Echoes in Whitman, Gaiman, and Poe

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Graves, Ghosts, and Grief: Gothic Echoes in Whitman, Gaiman, and Poe

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https://padlet.com/joeeserafin/graves-ghosts-and-grief-gothic-echoes-in-whitman-gaiman-and--sahizxzqe4cdf5v9

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Gothic Stories for Halloween - Joey Ward

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Gothic Stories for Halloween - Joey Ward

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Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" and Maxine Hong Kingston's "No Name Woman" both demonstrate how the past refuses to die. Poe's poem depicts the speaker being tortured by the memory of Lenore until sadness evolves to madness. In Kingston's narrative, a family conceals the disgrace of a woman's forbidden pregnancy, but her ghostly presence remains. Each utilizes haunting as a form of social criticism: Poe reveals emotional loss, while Kingston challenges cultural repression and the silence of women's voices.

Coraline (2009), directed by Henry Selick, is a modern take on the gothic genre. Coraline's discovery of the "Other World" recalls Poe's chamber and Kingston's buried family story, spaces where repression manifests itself literally. The Other Mother's beautiful life transforms into a nightmare of control and possession, employing classic gothic tropes such as the double, the haunted mansion, and the return of the repressed. Under its fantastical exterior, the film criticizes emotional neglect and the myth of the "perfect" family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlv4yzsmwyI

Taylor Swift's "My Tears Ricochet" (2020) similarly turns sorrow into haunting. Like Kingston's aunt, Swift's narrator has been silenced and betrayed, but she returns to confront those who have mistreated her. The ghostly imagery, "If I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake?", transforms pain into power. Together, these works demonstrate that the gothic endures because it transforms sorrow and repression into reality: what we bury always finds its way back to us.

https://genius.com/Taylor-swift-my-tears-ricochet-lyrics

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Haunted Then, Haunted Now - Jacob Pistone

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Haunted Then, Haunted Now - Jacob Pistone

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Kingston’s “No Name Woman” explores the haunting legacy of a family’s hidden shame and how silence preserves cultural and generational trauma. The ghost of the unnamed aunt represents the family’s moral repression and the ways patriarchal society punishes women. Similarly, The Haunting of Hill House centers on a family literally and psychologically haunted by a home filled with repressed memories, guilt, and trauma. The ghosts embody the characters’ buried pain and unspoken family secrets. Both texts use the supernatural as a social critique of patriarchal and cultural repression. How societies silence women and transform their suffering into haunting.

Link: Netflix page for The Haunting of Hill House

Poe’s story defines American Gothic through decay, of the mind, the home, and the family line. Flanagan’s 2023 series modernizes Poe’s Gothic world, transforming the Ushers into a wealthy pharmaceutical dynasty whose empire literally rots from within. The family mansion becomes a metaphor for moral decay, greed, and the consequences of exploitation. Both versions use Gothic horror to critique social corruption and capitalist excess, showing that the “house” both family and business collapses under the weight of its sins.

Link: Netflix page for The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)

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1. “Song of Myself” (Whitman) + Black Mirror (Netflix series)

Whitman’s “Song of Myself” explores death and self-awareness, suggesting that identity continues even after death. The show Black Mirror, especially episodes like “San Junipero” and “Be Right Back,” mirrors this gothic idea by showing technology as a modern form of haunting, people living through digital ghosts and memories. Both explore what it means to exist beyond life and how humanity confronts mortality in unsettling ways.
https://www.netflix.com/title/70264888

2. “No Name Woman” (Kingston) + The Haunting of Hill House (Netflix series)

Kingston’s story focuses on family secrets, shame, and how the past continues to haunt future generations. The Haunting of Hill House also centers on a family literally and emotionally haunted by their home and their memories. Both works use ghosts as symbols for guilt, silence, and trauma, showing how buried truths never really disappear.
https://www.netflix.com/title/80189221

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In Crimson Peak, del Toro revives the traditional Gothic mansion, the haunted past, and the danger of passion — themes that echo Kingston’s “No Name Woman.” Both of these works explore how secrets and shame haunt families and women, using ghosts as metaphors for repressed memories and cultural stillness. The film critiques patriarchal control and social obsession with appearances much like Kingston’s story critiques the silencing of women through family “honor.”

Film: Crimson Peak (2015, dir. Guillermo del Toro)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2554274/

This series mirrors the existential and spiritual reflections in Whitman’s “Song of Myself” through its portrayal of grief, death, and interconnected souls. Each character faces their own version of the uncanny — not just ghosts, but memories that refuse to rest. The show’s use of the haunted house as a living being represents the self, filled with multitudes of love, fear, and loss. A deeply Gothic meditation on mortality and the persistence of the human spirit.

TV Series: The Haunting of Hill House (Netflix, 2018)

https://www.netflix.com/title/80189221

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The Never Ending Cycle of Death - Sydney Carroll

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The Never Ending Cycle of Death - Sydney Carroll

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Haunted Families & Crumbling Houses: The Gothic That Never Dies- Summer Anderson

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Haunted Families & Crumbling Houses: The Gothic That Never Dies- Summer Anderson

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What is it With Creative People and Death?

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What is it With Creative People and Death?

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Whispers of the Gothic: From Whitman’s Death to Poe’s Raven

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Whispers of the Gothic: From Whitman’s Death to Poe’s Raven

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