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\n<\/a>\"BL\"<\/a>We went to see the Gothic Exhibition<\/a> at the British Library on the last\u00a0Friday of the Christmas hols – myself and the sprogs with my US cousin and his son, who were over for a couple weeks. I love a bit of Gothery and\u00a0if you do too and want to catch the exhibition, you’d best be quick as it finishes in a couple of weeks. Gothic was nicely summed up by a Victorian poster (below), which has moonlight, bats, a swooning heroine and lurking terrors.<\/p>\n

The horror began before we’d even arrived when we rolled up to the Tube station to the experience the shock of the new fares. No longer any Zone 1&2 Travelcards and \u00a312 for an Adult Travelcard or \u00a36 for a Child for Zones 1-4. WTF? We wanted to go\u00a04 stops to the library from Zone 2 to Zone 1, mooch around town on foot a bit and then come back. \u00a312? Are they taking the piss?!!!<\/p>\n

Oh, but you can do a single fare just by swiping your debit card for \u00a32.35, the lady on the station said. Great! Except that once you’ve swiped it once, how are you supposed to get the children tickets, since it won’t let you swipe it again for them? So we’re back to \u00a36 travel cards for them <rolls eyes> Another well thought-out policy at work! …We caught a cab.<\/p>\n

Forgive my\u00a0digression into a rant about London Transport failures.\u00a0Back to the point of this post – the Gothic Exhibition. If you watched the Gothic documentary series on BBC4<\/a> in Autumn, you will be familiar with most of what was on offer, beginning with Horace Walpole’s original gothic novel The Castle at Otranto and working through the Victorian heydays of Dracula and Frankenstein, penny dreadfuls and 20th Century horror films, through to contemporary Gothery in film and literature. There were even a few photos of Goths at the end (though they all looked far too colourful or\u00a0a bit more Steampunk to me).<\/p>\n

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It was an interesting exhibition for lovers of literature of this ilk. I had no idea that The Wicker Man was based on a book (Ritual by David Pinner) and picked up an interesting list of reading material, both for myself and the children.<\/p>\n

Brag Alert! What impressed me most about visiting the exhibition though was that both of my children knew\u00a0much of the material and DD is not only familiar with Edgar Allan Poe, but\u00a0has a favourite!\u00a0\ud83d\ude00 Quite handy then that it was this very favourite, The Tell-Tale Heart<\/em>, \u00a0which was the subject of the short animated film made in the 1950s being screened.<\/p>\n

There are only a few days left to catch the exhibition, which closes on the 20th.*<\/p>\n

*I meant to post this a couple of weeks ago, but tax return and other events overtook<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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