Gothic Romance is Alive!

I took this snap of the house beyond the field yesterday and immediately thought of those fabulous gothic romance paperbacks I used to collect.

 Gothic romance, an American literary sub-genre which boomed in the 60's and 70's, always had superbly illustrated covers which mostly followed the same artistic conventions: a dark night, a fleeing lady and an eerie house in which an upstairs light can be seen, as in my photograph too!

Here's one of countless examples of these covers, The House at Swansea, showing all three graphical conventions.

Perhaps the most famous of the gothic romance writers was Marilyn Ross, who penned the Dark Shadows paperbacks, now very collectable.

He also wrote many generic gothic romances, such as this, Beware My Love, which again shows all three cover conventions.

Have you any gothic romance in your life?