Eurocentrism in The Gothic: Preliminary Threads
Lauryn Collins Lauryn Collins

Eurocentrism in The Gothic: Preliminary Threads

This was probably the right post to have formulated while on holiday in Ottawa, as although the city is beautiful, it is an absolute theme park of colonialism, and being surrounded by statues of European white men and buildings that emanated this fallacy of superiority was good motivation to tackle this topic.

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A Warm and Timorous Welcome
Lauryn Collins Lauryn Collins

A Warm and Timorous Welcome

If you’re coming here from my first attempt at a curated approach to my love for horror media, I’m sure you’ll find this a vast improvement. If you’re stumbling across this for the first time, well then, count me relieved you never saw the first iteration of this dreary and potentially ill-fated experiment before this moment. Regardless of who you are or why you’re here — welcome! Please accept my sincere condolences for what you are about to experience.

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