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{Edition II}
Thirteen Things about WHY LESLIE LOVES WRITING GOTHICS!
1. The heroes are mysterious and brooding.
2. The heroines (in modern versions) are fiesty and resilient.
3. The settings are often spooky mansions and act as a character to the story.
4. There are often paranormal events, or at least the reader thinks there are.
5. The reader doesn’t know if the hero is a good or bad guy until the very end.
6. Sounds and visions aren’t often what they seem.
7. The Phantom of the Opera
8. The weather can play into the storyline like a secondary character.
9. There can be cool stuff like gargoyles and ravens.
10. It’s one of the few subgenres where First Person really works well.
11. Jennifer St. Giles
12. The tone is dark, mystical, and often has a sexual undercurrent.
13. My own gothic is currently under consideration at three publishing houses!!
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According to MadameTalbot.com, Halloween began when the Celts marked the end of summer and start of winter. They also believed the dead revisted the world on that day and thus would dress as ghosts and devils to disguise themselves, thereby ensuring the real spirits would not carry them away.
The Irish would carve turnips into cheap lanterns. If one kept a lit, carved turnip lantern in the window, it would drive away evil spirits. In America, turnips weren’t so plentiful and so pumpkins were used instead.
By the the later 1800s upper and middle class Victorian Americans downplayed the Irish Catholic connections. However, back then, the parlor games and Halloween parties were intended for Victorian adults, not children. And I don’t think candy corn was served either. 
By the way, you can buy the above poster at Madame Talbot’s site for $14.95. Free shipping to the US and Canada.
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The naughty Halloween. The scary Halloween. And the cute Halloween:
