Hidden Passages: Gothic Horror/Romance

The Book Of Night Was Opened Wide (61692 words) by calliopes_pen
Chapters: 8/8
Fandom: Dracula - Bram Stoker
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
Relationships: Mina Harker/Lucy Westenra, Jonathan Harker/Mina Harker, Count Dracula/Jonathan Harker, Jonathan Harker/Lucy Westenra
Characters: Mina Harker, Dracula, Lucy Westenra, Abraham Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker, John Seward, R.M. Renfield, Quincey Morris, Arthur Holmwood
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Blood, Fog, Vampires, Mind Control, Blood Drinking, Character Death, Vampire Turning, Stake through the heart, Friendship, Horror, Gothic, Suspense, Animal Transformation, Rats, Van Helsing Is Thwarted At Almost Every Turn, Possession, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Love, Bats
Summary:

What if Lucy didn’t return to her crypt when she was confronted with Van Helsing and crew? What if she went away with Dracula, and thus avoided the stake? What if Lucy targeted another to get closer to Mina, with Dracula’s assistance? Mina finds herself making a dark choice as her husband wanders into the night, and the ripples of those choices change everything.

Via the final note in the ending author’s notes, you should find two links. One will take you to the commentary for the writing of the story, while the other will take you to the deleted scenes.

Wrap The Cloak Of Night Around His Shoulders (59744 words) by calliopes_pen
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mina Harker/John Seward, Count Dracula/Jonathan Harker
Characters: John Seward, Mina Harker, Jonathan Harker, Lucy Weston, Count Dracula, Abraham Van Helsing
Additional Tags: When Vampires Attack, Exorcisms, Hypnotism, Possession, Bats, Temptation, Friendship, Mind Control, Jonathan runs away with Dracula, Van Helsing is clever, Mina protects Lucy, Seward needs a blood transfusion and blanket right about now, There's something in the basement, Vampire Bites, Hurt/Comfort, Character Turned Into Vampire, Elements of Lucy/Mina, staking, Vampirism Causes Irreconcilable Differences, Suspense, Nightmares, Fog, Journey to the Castle, Happy Ending, Blood Drinking, Adventure, Alternate Universe
Summary: What if Seward and Van Helsing told Mina about the danger Lucy was in sooner? What if Lucy wasn’t bitten a final time that night, because Mina was in the house? This gives them a reprieve. Everything changes for the better and for the worse. Each takes a more active role in their fate as they fight to keep Dracula away from Lucy, and the darkness closes in around them.

And since Crimson Peak (2015) fits our gothic horror/romance theme, here’s the fanfic I wrote for Yuletide 2015.

Let The Shadows Become Your Shroud (33269 words) by calliopes_pen
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Crimson Peak (2015)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Edith Cushing/Thomas Sharpe, Edith Cushing/Alan McMichael
Characters: Edith Cushing, Thomas Sharpe, Lucille Sharpe, Alan McMichael
Additional Tags: Horror, Gothic Romance, Alan shouldn't play with ouija boards, Possession, Ghosts, Vague References of Past Canon Abuse, Friendship, Exorcisms, Supernatural Elements, Blood, Hurt/Comfort, Mind Control, When Ghost Moths Attack, extremely vague reference to canon incest, When Ghost Hunts Go A Bit Wrong, Precarious mental state eroded further in death, Mental Maze
Summary: Two years after the events of the film, Alan and Edith are married. Now that Allerdale Hall has collapsed into the clay, Lucille’s ghost is free to seek revenge against them…but Thomas knows what his sister is planning and will provide them with aid no matter how dangerous things become.

No matter how terrifying it becomes for the living, as souls are imperiled by the grasp of the dead.

Welcome to hidden_passages! This community was set up to give people a place to discuss anything that relates to gothic horror and/or gothic romance throughout literature, television, and film over the decades (or centuries, in the case of the literature).

Feel free to post discussions of whatever falls under that umbrella. If you wish to post a review and are uncertain if something is too new and therefore don’t wish to spoil anyone, then kindly post it behind a cut tag just to be on the safe side.

The rules (which I will copy/paste to the user info momentarily):

-Please use a cut tag on longer posts, so that you might spare reading lists for other people.
-No bashing of other people’s interests.
-All fanworks are welcome as long as they relate to Gothic Horror/Romance fandoms.
-Please put NSFW/large graphics/gifs/icons other than teasers/embeds/spoilers under a cut.
--No RPF allowed.
-As there was a mild issue with anonymous Russian spam in the comments of another group I ran over on Livejournal, I have currently set this group to screen anonymous comments. They will be unscreened as quickly as possible.

Feel free to post, and have fun!

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