Day: April 17, 2016

mickeyandcompany:

_{Concept art of Beauty and the Beast – [Part 2]}

_{(Part 1)}

pauldierden:

As we shall see, the Suburban Gothic is a sub-genre concerned, first
and foremost, with playing upon the lingering suspicion that even the
most ordinary-looking neighbourhood, or house, or family, has something
to hide, and that no matter how calm and settled a place looks,
it is only ever a moment away from dramatic (and generally sinister)
incident. The trope of the peaceful-looking suburban house with a TERRIBLE
SECRET within is one so familiar as to have passed into cliché.
It reflects the fear that the rapid change in lifestyles and modes of living which took place in the 1950s and early 1960s caused irreparable
damage, not only to the landscape, but to the psychological state of the
people who moved into such new developments and broke with the
old patterns of existence. It owes much to the spate of, often vitriolic,
intellectual commentary that accompanied these changes and predicted
that terrible consequences would transpire: tellingly, the language and
imagery used by such commentators often owed much to the gothic

In the Suburban Gothic, one is almost always in more danger from the people in the house next door, or one’s own family, than from external threats. Horror here invariably begins at home, or at least very near to it,and in that sense the sub-genre continues the uneasy fascination with the connection between living environment and psychology which
helped reinvigorate the haunted house story in the mid-twentieth century.
Unlike the small town horror tales of Stephen King, in which the
danger invariably comes from a monstrous ‘Other’, here, it is one’s fellow
suburbanites, family members and personal decisions which pose
the most danger.