Word: gothic
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THERE is nothing sudden about Suddenly Last Summer. In fact, the play is rather excruciating. Tennessee Williams' awesome drama combines all the horror of a 19th century gothic tale with a 20th century Freudian's worst nightmare...
Across the street, surrounded by the pubs, was a massive building, half gothic without the spires, half colonial without the shutters. OK, this might be something. The sign above the door said that visitors must have a pass from the school office. Clearly an invitation to roam...
...them." Flannery O'Connor's modest self-analysis remains the most penetrating of all. Doomed by | a hereditary disease, lonely, indomitable, sustained by her faith and her work, the Southern Catholic saw herself as a lifelong outsider. When she died at 39 in 1964, she left a legacy of gothic tales obsessively concerned with characters she called "more or less primitive." The author displayed no biases. Blacks are sometimes sympathetic; just as often they bring trouble. The moral force of religion can be redemptive, or it can lead to violence and death. Women may prove enlightened, or they...
...notable reprints include Michael Gilbert's Young Petrella (Harper & Row; 222 pages; $15.95), a collection of magazine stories from the 1950s and '60s that display his trademark Scotland Yard detective with a deadpan precision of mood worthy of Simenon, and A Double Life (Little, Brown; 246 pages; $17.95), short gothic chillers by Louisa May Alcott...
...time you are stranded at O'Hare International Airport, waiting in numb misery for Groundloop Airlines to postpone your red-eye to Washington National. At least half the frequent sufferers -- blue-suited business plodders of both sexes -- will carry a megatech spy paperback. Not a detective story or a gothic bodice ripper but a 500-page thunderation about missile subs, perhaps, or rocket attacks on space stations...