Comments on: Upon The Nature Of Gothic Horror

By: Venetia

Venetia — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 11:05:59 +0000

Those pesky demons will be banished for ever at the end of the age. I recommend ‘Seeing Behind the Veil’ by Ana Werner. Ana is a seer who has had many encounters with the Lord Jesus and can describe what heaven is like. Her experiences helped me a great deal while my friend was dying in April. Heaven became very real to both of us and we have agreed that we will one day meet again at the Great Feast as described in Revelation 19:7-9.

By: Roger Preece

Roger Preece — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 09:08:01 +0000

Thank you so much for a wonderful piece. Lovely to see your beautiful pictures of St Katharine’s Chapel carvings. Anyone can come and stay at The Royal Foundation of St Katharine or book an event/meeting here. We also have lots of community activites at the Yurt Cafe. http://www.rfsk.org.uk We are a charity form the 12th century that wants to give people peace, connections and time to reflect. Roger Preece – Master

By: Lesley Hudswell

Lesley Hudswell — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 09:05:02 +0000

I always enjoy your pieces but this is exceptionally powerful.

By: Kathryn Vile

Kathryn Vile — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 08:42:55 +0000

Beautiful writing and these pictures of the misericords are fantastic.

By: Beckie

Beckie — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:38:30 +0000

Thank you for this beautifully written piece. It brought tears to my eyes. I spent years checking under the bed before going to sleep, in fact I’ve probably only stopped because I got a dog. I think so much of what we think and feel is bound up with our terror of death and trying to come to terms with that great unknown.

By: John Price

John Price — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:25:49 +0000

Thank you, as ever, Gentle Author for articulating what I am sure is a common experience. Not fear of the dark as such but fear of the playground for the imagination it becomes when, without shape and object to occupy it, the mind fills the void with its terrors. I wonder, has any reader sensed a presence when going up a darkened stair, reached up with their hands to ward it off and called out: “Who is there?”. Heart-stopping. I cannot watch horror films. No point, nothing is as terrible as the thoughts that come unbidden.

By: Julia Harrison

Julia Harrison — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 06:42:08 +0000

My childhood terrors of orange peel teeth and being chased upstairs quail in view of your descriptions of these gothic horrors. I am moved by your memories and by the vanishing of these hauntings on the death of your parents. Thank you for sharing them.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 06:25:40 +0000

That was a wonderful piece of writing! You really bared your soul in describing your close encounters with Creatures of Darkness. It must have been very difficult, all those years, to live in such fear.