Gothic Writing

58 creative works found

  • Anna's Eternal Sorrow - (collaboration)
    by LilyMunroe

    Does she roam every day, with her beautiful sorrow her only companion, on that simple piece of earth wherein his bones rest?

    / Inspired from a photo by Johanne Brunet

  • Baron del Rose
    by Brett Foster

    The first sign of light was from minuscule filament wires within the globes that lined the walls, little orange worms of electricity, spa…

  • Ode to the Moon
    by Crockpot

    Oh Moon, my Moon, / tripping the sky, / slash me with thy wicked tongue— / teach me, make me fly! Oh Moon, my Moon, / with thy burnished …

    I wrote this back when I was in college. / © 1995

  • Mad
    by Crockpot

    Big mouth never closes, / gulping air to chew the words— / hole in my face gapes open, / a nest of chattering birds. / Spittle runs bubbly / ...

    Written during a very dark period of my life, between the depression and bipolar diagnoses. ©1993

  • The Transformation
    by sonia

    Looking in the mirror, she was suddenly acutely aware of the fact that she could be witnessing something very familiar for possibly the l…

    This is a short story I’ve entered into the “Blood Red – All things Vampiric” group’s “first blood/first time you ‘took the plunge’” competition. It’s the first piece of written work I’ve submitted since I joined Redbubble a year and a half ago, so I hope everyone likes it! x

  • Gothic Work
    by gemynd

    I found myself once again crippled by the act of doing nothing, pressing my face against the cold glass of my bedroom window….....

    This is a work produced for English, written through the voice of a great Gothic novelist like Henry James or Emily Bronte.

  • The Cup
    by Crockpot

    Passing the cup / from one to the next, / each convulsing hand / touches my blood to his lips. On down the line, / to each starving soul, ...

    The trials and tribulations of being an empath… ©1995

  • Whore
    by Crockpot

    All the elements have, / at some time, been my lover— / I, whore to earthly things, / I love all that suffer… all but the sun, too bri…

    Written during a very dark period of my life, between the depression and bipolar diagnoses. ©1994

  • Last Breath
    by Crockpot

    Long, slim bones / scratch tracks down my / bare, powder-white back. Strange, hollow knuckles crack / for want of blood / and make popping…

    Written during a very dark period of my life, between the depression and bipolar diagnoses. ©1995

  • Scarecrow
    by Crockpot

    Let me be the arcane angel / atop the tree outside your room— / hang me high from its branches / so that I darkly dangle / in the face of th…

    Written during a very dark period of my life, during my struggle with finding the rights meds for my bipolar. ©1996

  • Wish
    by Crockpot

    For when I die, / my corpse cold and blue, / I have a favor / to ask of you. / If there’s no need in this world / for the thing you call my he…

    Written during a very dark period of my life, between the depression and bipolar diagnoses. ©1993

  • Quest
    by Crockpot

    I know not why I live for love— / I only know I do. / One thousand loves / I could dream of / and only one that’s true. / That soul will die…

    Written during a very depressed time in my life, between my depression and bipolar diagnoses. I was also listening to The Cure a lot. :P ©1993

  • untitled
    by Crockpot

    a junk pile / of old / rusted leaves / t U m b l e s / through the alley / like dead skins / on / fire

    ©1993

  • [cool wall of death]
    by Crockpot

    With my ear pressed against / the cool wall of death, / a hugging calm / settles over my body. / You all stand around / looking / full of fear….

    Written during a very dark period of my life, between the depression and bipolar diagnoses. ©1993

  • Post Mortem
    by Garth Horsfield

    My brother sits on mother’s shelf / In sombre hues of grey / Like flower plucked and soon to fade / But captured for a day The wringing h…

    I was creeping myself out looking at Victorian post mortem photography, the fashion of taking pictures of dead loved ones… I scribbled this gothic poem and creeped myself out even more thinking about it. I’ll have to do an art piece to match it one day.

  • Don’t Let the Truth Get In The Way Of a Gothic Romance
    by Damian

    “I thought I told you…!” he started, before being cut off. / “Shove it, goth lord. Have fun on your own.”

    An entry for the second challenge in Blood Red, the vampire group, on the theme What’s Been Lost

  • Agapita Plays Hide N Seek in Her Pretty Dress
    by klezedawg

    Agapita plays hide n seek / in her pretty dress / her hair an ungodly mess / nose springing a leak / finger put in place to hold back the dis…

  • My Most Singular & Horrific Experience in the Celtic Woodland, or the Fright of my Hitherto Short Life. Part 1.
    by Kenart

    The strange but regular booming served to heighten the oppressive atmosphere and I confess to a certain trepidation as I continued my som…

    By a Gentleman

  • The God unbound
    by JOHN WELLS

    now know me as darkness / sifting through time / seething, nature, primal, unflinching

    Live no longer in shadow and walk amidst the day

  • As one
    by JOHN WELLS

    our bodies convulse to the same electric pulse / we sing the siren song..together in time I stare into her deep dark eyes…the world s…

    This poem is for the one i love….wherever she may be…

  • Mother Nature
    by gudmike

    ....They raped her land with disregard, once Oceans green and blue….

    A glimpse of the very possible future

  • The night stalks
    by LilyMunroe

    She assured herself momentarily that these were merely the phantoms of dreams. That she would before long awake in the comfort of bed wit…

    A Gothic/Romantic style short ghost story, inspired by otherworldly Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.

  • An exerpt from Mikhail's story...
    by DarwinsMishap

    A story written during emotional turmoil, and one of my most… oddest moments.

  • Sentimentalist Graveyards
    by Arletta

    Too short, and sweet, for an extract

    This goes with Bombshell Epitath, a digital painting that is also uploaded here. If and when it ever goes into a book, properly, it will be with that picture .. probably a grayscale version, but definitely that picture.

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