Like I mentioned, the more creepy scenes didn't have a strong presence until the ending with the Devil making a strong appearance: If you read this looking for a Gothic, I think you'd hit the gold mine with it's verbiage and tone. I did really enjoy how the author played around with the themes of religious doctrine and the hypocrisy/corruption of its supposed devout leaders, men putting the blame on women for their failings, jealousy, and power.
This is a different issue than him being turned on by Mathilda who willing wants to sleep with him) Religious individuals might find this story more, I don't know, worrisome because of the themes of non-infallibility regarding sin no one is safe from the devil. (Not talking about Ambrosio's later desire to rape Antonia he wants her and she doesn't want him. I don't think it is any more crazy that a monk would give into his lust than an average non-religious male. As an atheist I don't hold religious individuals, rather they be in high ranking positions in the church, to a higher regard. Until the last 30-20% the story is really about love, lust, and jealousy. The charm now ceased to operate: The blood which had been frozen in my veins rushed back to my heart with violence: I uttered a deep groan, and sank lifeless upon my pillow. Till that moment the faculties of my body had been all suspended Those of my mind had alone been waking. She grasped with her icy fingers my hand which hung lifeless upon the Coverture, and pressing her cold lips to mine, again repeated, "Raymond! Raymond! Thou art mine! Raymond! Raymond! I am thine! &c.-" She then dropped my hand, quitted the chamber with slow steps, and the Door closed after her. The Apparition rose from her seat, and approached the side of the bed. I was expecting more creepiness, it takes until the 50% mark for a ghost to appear:Īt length the Clock struck two. The format of having a main character, Ambrosio (the monk), and then having secondary characters branch off from him and tangentially going astray and telling their stories, only to have them all come together in the end, was extremely compelling. It's said this was written by a 19/20 yr old and within 10 weeks, which if true, is amazing.
I read this for the Classic Horror Halloween Bingo square. Dreams, magic terrors, spells of mighty power, Witches, and ghosts who rove at midnight hour.
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