Where It All Begins...



Blogger yours truely comes a cropper in the wild wood....

 "Never stray from the path", and

always be home in time for supper... (2)

don't tell where grandma lives....

or stray from the road... (the Korean update of Grimm "Hansel & Gretel" (2007))

American Gothic: Edward Gorey's take on Red Riding Hood

Where it all begins: As a child I was scared rotten by my father's rendition of two favourite tales; Hansel and Gretel AND The Tinder Box. I had no idea what a tinder box actually was but I was sure scared silly by the dog "with eyes as big as dinner plates!" That is the monster the brave soldier has to face in order to get to the promised gold. What thrills for the imagination of the young! 

"The soldier struck the tiderbox twice and bade the dog with eyes like soup plates to bring the Princess to his house..."
from Beauty & the Beast and Other Stories illustrated by Louise Brierley

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Six of the Best!

In no particular order... (5 & 6)

 

Romancing the Stones

THE GOTHIC PILE...

Top: Scotland's Castle Stuart/ Above: County Wexford's Wilton Castle

Count Dracula's Carfax Abbey as it appears in the 1978 John Badhan directed "Dracula"

In actual fact, St Michael's Mount, a walk away from my home in Penzance, West Cornwall..

“The house was like a castle with its turrets, buttresses and matriculated towers
- a landmark to sailors who would know where they were when they saw that
pile of ancient stones…” MENFREYA Victoria Holt



 

“We were in an enormous hall which in the past must have been used

 as a banqueting room. The floor was of flagged stone, and the timbered

 roof was so lofty that I felt it must extend to the top of the house…

at one end of the hall was a dais and at the back of this a great open

fireplace. On the ais stood a refectory table on which were vessels

 and plates of pewter…” MISTRESS OF MELLYN Victoria Holt

 

"The unfortunate, persecuted maiden! The subject is as old
as the world..." Mario Praz The Romantic Agony



Damsel in Distress:  Karin Dor trapped below "Castle of the Walking Dead" (1967)

 

Rackham's House of Usher



 



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