She teams up with a group of young shadowhunters to try and save the city. Like some other urban fantasy shows on this list, Shadowhunters mostly takes place in the modern-day but incorporates historical flashbacks into the story – especially with the immortal Magnus Bane character. Gothic roma...
MysticalGothic Names Amara (Sanskrit and African – Nigerian girl name) –Name that means “grace”or “immortal”; afantasy nameafter a character in the “Supernatural” TV series Angelique (Frenchgirl name) –“Like an angel” or “angelic”; a witch character in “Dark Shadows”TV series...
handicrafts. In stone, wood, and ivory carving, ceramics, glasswork, the decoration of many kinds of metal objects with precious stones and enamels, and the weaving of fabrics and wall tapestries, delicacy of fantasy and lavish ornamentation are combined with masterly workmanship and perfect finish...
He is an Earthwalker, and here, the novel vies off from typical Gothic literature into science fiction and fantasy as we learn that he has lived for millennia since he is the son of the biblical Adam and his first wife, Lilith. As Erik grows to know his father and try to understand h...
and melodrama—but also fantasy, science fiction, burlesque, comedy, and musicals. Given its constitutive mobility, it would not be unwarranted to claim that the moniker ‘gothic cinema’ may thus become redundant—the films may be too different from one another to justify the cohesiveness and un...
In a purely physical sense, a great deal of Gothic sculpture can be removed from its architectural context and still claim our admiration not only for its vitality, its fantasy, and its grace, but also for its inherent, self-contained meaning. A host of carved statues of the thirteenth and...
Gothic children’s literature often takes the form offantasy. If the Gothic is aboutfear of desire, fantasy is a great genre to explore that becausefantasy teaches the reader to desire. Many children’s stories use the trope of theExplained Ghost. Basically, there’ssome sort of supernatural ...
hierarchy, but this also led to radical ideologies of the existential self in a non-Christian Godless world exemplified by Mary Shelley’s creature in Frankenstein (1818), John Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819) and Charles Maturin’s fantasy about a Kafka-esque bureaucracy in Melmoth the Wanderer ...
In a purely physical sense, a great Gothic sculpture can be extracted from its architectural context and still claim admiration not only for its vitality, its fantasy, and its grace, but also for its inherent and independent significance. Nevertheless, a number of carved statues of the thirteenth...
These casinos are fantasy versions of the European cul-ture he left, with names such as“Greek Mythology”and“The Mona Lisa:”a mim-icry that, at face value, seems to testify to China’s aspiration to be like Europe, butis in fact a commodification of European culture for a Chinese ...