“Bread crumbs”(perhaps how you got here)

My dictionary includes among its definitions for the word “Gothic” the following: “belonging to or redolent of the Dark Ages; portentously gloomy or horrifying: 19th-century Gothic horror”. I use the term slightly differently: my “Gothic” stories are set in the past of the same world we know today, but they have overtones of the supernatural.”

Many of these stories are, for some reason unknown to me, inspired by Songs of the Auvergne, by Joseph Canteloube. The songs presented in that work are a collection of folk-songs, with the usual variety of tone and content that one finds in folk music. But as I think about the Auvergne, I see it more and more as something like legendary Transylvania.

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