Hello there, dear reader!!🖤
My name is Coral Evermore— I’m a speculative gothic writer and English literature student writing fiction, poetry, essays, and writing craft reflections. Themes I seem to write obsessively about are trauma, grief, femininity, monstrosity, and transformation. I use my work to process complex emotion as a woman in the world trying to make sense of the darkness.
I am also currently developing my first gothic western horror novel, Project Vampire Western, set in New Mexico. I share ongoing writing craft reflections and behind-the-scenes updates as the project unfolds.
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Here are some of my absolute favorite novels, short stories, and movies:
Classic Novels
1984 — George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall — Anne Brontë
Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë
Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
Contemporary Novels
The Night Circus — Erin Morgenstern
Vampires of El Norte — Isabel Cañas
Mexican Gothic — Silvia Moreno-Garcia
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe — Charles Yu
Short Stories
The Cask of Amontillado — Edgar Allan Poe
A Hunger Artist — Franz Kafka
Young Goodman Brown — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Little Mermaid — Hans Christian Andersen
The Birthmark — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Yellow Wallpaper — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka
Movies
Pan’s Labyrinth — Guillermo del Toro
Crimson Peak — Guillermo del Toro
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once — Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
Good Will Hunting — Gus Van Sant
Dead Poets Society — Peter Weir
Sleepy Hollow — Tim Burton
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind — Michel Gondry
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