Monday, May 10, 2010

Lesson 5: Gothic Romance Paperback Secrets

Stairs at purple angles = unease
Armorel rhymes with amoral
I don't know what the Bellenmore secret is, because I only salvage the husks of these Gothic Romance Paperbacks. The contents get pitched. Secrets only have power when you don't know them, so this keeps the covers potent.
Assignment: "The more the cover of a Gothic Romance Paperback tells you, the less you know." To what 20th century enigma does this statement allude?
For extra secrets go to tumblr: Gothic Romance.

9 comments:

Ask the Cool Cookie said...

Would the cover secrets allude to the same types of unspoken things committed by the administration of Prime Minister Dick Cheney during the puppet government of George W. Bush?

Ask the Cool Cookie said...

"Brooding Donna Lethal dreaded the return to her ancestral home, Lethal Manor, overlooking the town of Fall River. Moreover,she was leery of mood that crept over her every time she returned to that place in her past, and how it ignited her "tendencies". Who left that babe upon the door step was only one question of many that no one in town dared to ask. The other, more lurid question would flood her mind once she grasped the blood stained knife that had found in the back of the stone cold Vicar, stopping his rapacious hunger for human flesh."

normadesmond said...

i get chilblains every time i see one of these gothic posts.

Donna Lethal said...

"In the tradition of"
Yes, the town whispered that dear Pugsley of the Purple Steps was really mine and Trask's before he was called off to fight the dreaded War of the Thorns, never to return. My fortune fading, only one servant left, Pugsley grew to be a stunningly handsome lad, yet I feared for his safety ...

Eve said...

The quicksand of unspeakable evil? That's the worst kind of quicksand!

Donna Lethal said...

Yes, it's a nasty household problem - I finally managed to get rid of mine last year!

Ask the Cool Cookie said...

You got ride of your Quicksand of Evil? Well, if you ever want it back, Sears carries it in their seasonal department. Look for a sale in August. By in quanity, and SAVE !

Donna Lethal said...

Is that where he ended up? As someone once said to me, "The one with the biggest couch wins," so he must be in the furniture department. PASS!

Lily Duschene said...

I had to look up "chilblains." I'm sorry to cause toe ulcers in anyone, but that's how unspeakable evil works.