Siouxsie Sioux Quotes

Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.

After college, I went on a real big classics kick. Read everything by Faulkner, Hemingway, Woolf, Proust, Dostoevsky. And that classics train dropped me off at 'Dracula.' Halfway through it, I understood I'd never be going back, never 'leaving' the genre again. Since then, I've been on a fairly strict horror diet.

When I was 14, 15, 16, I was wearing 'Edward Scissorhands' and 'Nightmare before Christmas' stuff. I saw 'Sleepy Hollow' a dozen times.

I think the Hammer films really made death quite sexy.

I find inspiration in the movies I've loved, especially all films ever made about Dracula.

I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.

Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie.

Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

I definitely fell in love with 'Dracula' when I was 13. I found it so fascinating and so dark and romantic.

Right away I think of two books - 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Rebecca' - and of just sinking into them as a young reader. I think they must have appealed not just to my romantic adolescent soul, but I suppose there's also an appealing darkness in both of them.

There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.

I don't really begin with ideas about genre. I certainly wrote a gothic novel, 'The Keep,' that conformed to and, in some ways, played with every convention I knew of to work with in the gothic, but the way I came to it was very instinctive and visceral.

I love all that kind of gothic Bram Stoker kind of thing. I love to get lost in that kind of escapism.

I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.

Certainly Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women. And if this erotic quality hadn't come out we'd have been very disappointed.

'Dark Shadows' was the spark that lit the fire of my childhood imagination. It wasn't polished; it wasn't perfect. But it gave us characters with real personalities and complicated motivations.

I certainly didn't want to make another movie that's 'just another Dracula film.'

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

I read 'Rebecca' when I was a teenager and was swept away by the powerful voice, the gut wrenching suspense and the dark, twisted love story at its center.

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.

I became a horror fan during the early 1960s, back when Hammer was putting out their groundbreaking 'Dracula' series with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, and grew up watching 'Dark Shadows.'

Tim Burton, let's face it: he's into stitches.

Edinburgh is a sort of gothic fairytale city, and it can be a gothic horror city as well.

Many of the elements associated with storybook mythology and gothic aesthetics are actually not expressive.