Montgomery Gothic

[osprey_archer]

littlerhymes commented in my post on Pat of Silver Bush that L. M. Montgomery Gothic should be a thing, and the more I think about it, the more I like it. Her books are already halfway there, after all. (More like three-quarters in the case of Emily of New Moon. What could be a more gothic house name than New Moon?)

A few thoughts:

There is a house. It has always been there. It will always be there.

The house is full of beautiful and broken things.

There is a car somewhere in the distance. The sound of its motor is the hum of a terrible encroaching future, full of shiny new things. The very words shiny and new send a shiver down your spine.

You will grow up someday. This is a great tragedy.

The trees with their blossoms are like ghosts in the evening.

The trees talk to you.

The house is on fire.

Comments

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Nice ;o)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Hee, this sounds like a Laurie Anderson lyric.

[emma-in-oz.livejournal.com]

Please, please write more because you are so right. The Disappointed House, amirite?

[littlerhymes]

Obviously I am 110% here for this. :D

So many of the elements are pre-existing. If we simply approach from a different angle... The ghosts and the orphaned children and the occasional creepy older man who tries to control your creative impulses and maybe psyches you into burning the only manuscript of your first novel, no big deal.