gothic literature Archives - Bone and Sickle

The White, Old Maid: a Story for Halloween

October 31, 2026 boneandsickle EPISODE, ghost stories, ghosts, gothic literature, Halloween, literature, mystery, New England, storytelling

Curl up by a glowing Jack-o-Lantern and enjoy Mrs. Karswell’s reading of another eerie tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Originally titled[…]

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Robert the Devil: Medieval Legend, Gothic Opera

June 6, 2026 boneandsickle chapbooks, demons, Devil, diabolism, EPISODE, folklore, France, ghosts, Gothic, gothic literature, history, horror, legends, literature, medieval, Middle Ages, nuns, opera, Paris Opera, Robert le diable, Robert the Devil, Romanticism, The Monk, theater, Victorian

Robert the Devil is a supernatural medieval legend that inspired a 19th-century French opera, which incorporates key elements from a[…]

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Rhymes for Those Who Can Neither Read Nor Run

January 31, 2026 boneandsickle ballads, books, Britain, children's literature, England, EPISODE, folk music, folklore, frogs, ghost stories, gothic literature, history, literature

Gammer Gurton’s Garland, published in 1784, is one of the earliest collections of English nursery rhymes, and contains verses both[…]

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