“The Nurse’s Story” by Elizabeth Gaskell (1852)
“I would come, but cruel, wicked Hester holds me very tight.”
Gothic af.
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“The Boar’s Head Beast” by George Wildman, Nicola Cuti, Wayne Howard (1975)
“I toyed with forces I couldn’t control.”
This has bits of Lovecraft but it’s mostly an adventure story, and that just reminds me that so much of the adventure stuff I loved as a kid is from the action subgenre of horror.
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Def by Temptation dir. James Bond III (1990)
“Honey, I’ve given you something there’s no cure for.”
This was an interesting contrast with Ganja & Hess. It lacks the redemptive element sewn throughout that movie, instead leaning into a Tales from the Cyptesque comedic cautionary tale, and a heavy dose of Christian moralism.