Gothic is a difficult word to define. Although much of what I’ve published, in my little way, has a dark humor to it, my favorite writing genre is Gothic. A backlit, ruined castle with a raven winging through an overcast sky, with a leafless tree in the foreground infuses me with inexplicable paroxysms of wonder. Summer can be a difficult time for those of us who would easily live in an eternal autumn. Right now the sun is shining and it feels like things might be okay after all. So today I’ll give my tips to having a Gothic day, even in summer. Select a dark and gloomy morning to awake before sunrise. Since I haunt my chilly apartment halls frequently at 3:00 a.m., I know such days come even in the summer. Take a long bath with steam rising from the surface of the gray water. (This works best on a chilly morning.) Preferably do this in a claw-footed steel tub. Light a few candles. Breakfast lightly, trying to mainta...
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