before 1800

• "der vampir" by heinrich august ossenfelder (1748)
• "the bride of corinth" by johann wolfgang von goethe (1797)

1800-1819

• "wake not the dead"attributed to johann ludwig tieck (1800)
• thalaba the destroyerby robert southey (1801)
• "the vampire" by john stagg, in his minstrel of the north (1810)
• the giaour by george gordon byron (1813)
• "a fragment of a novel" (aka "the burial: a fragment") by george gordon byron (1816)
• "the vampyre" by john polidori (1819)

1820-1830

• lord ruthven ou les vampires (lord ruthve...

• billy holiday
• chet baker
• duke ellington
• ella fitzgerald
• john coltrane
• nina simone
• theolonius monk

• the alienist
• the discovery of witches
• the librarians
• the knick
• sherlock
• the magicians

• a midsummer night's dream
• afternoon of a faun
• requiem for a rose
• la esmeralda
• land of nod
• the nightingale and the rose
• la sonambula
• petrouchka
• the unicorn, the gorgon, and the manticore or, the three sundays of a poet
• apollo
• don quixote
• harmonielehre
• étoile polaire
• firebird
• in the middle, somewhat elevated
• hungarian gypsy airs
• four norweigan moods
• mozartiana
• bolero
• coppélia

• denise levertov
• diane di prima
• elise cowen
• joyce johnson
• hettie jones

• agnes obel
• altan
• amorphis
• anathema
• angel olsen
• avatarium
• bad religion
• bathsheba
• blind guardian
• blondie
• blood ceremony
• blue öyster cult
• bohren & der club of gore
• carole king
• cellar darling
• chelsea wolfe
• clannad
• cocteau twins
• coven
• cradle of filth
• cyndi lauper

• agatha christie
• albert camus
• anne brontë
• anne rice
• bram stoker
• charlotte brontë
• clive barker
• donna tartt
• doris lessing
• edgar allan poe
• elena ferrante
• emily brontë
• hilda hilst
• howard phillips lovecraft
• jane austen
• joan didion
• johann wolfgang von goethe
• liudmila petruchévskaia
• margaret atwood
• marguerite duras
• mariana enriquez

• alexandrine
• art & mythology
• pre-dracula vampire literature
• referências no pinterest
• wikipedia's chronological list of import...

• "god, I overflow with the vitality and ecstasy of being alive!"
• "i have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. or i can go mad by ricocheting in between."
• "i took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: i am, i am, i am."
• "please, I want so badly for the good things to happen."
• "please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand."
• "i think I’m in love with missing you more than i’m in love with you."
• "i am pretty much disgusted with human behavior most of the time."
• "i am possessive about time alone."
• "it is awful to want to go away and to wa...

• “believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
• “never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
• “i wish i could write as mysterious as a cat.”
• “deep in earth my love is lying/ and i must weep alone.”
• “and so being young and dipped in folly i fell in love with melancholy.”
• “i felt that i breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.”
• “and all i loved, i loved alone.”
• “invisible things are the only realities.”
• “deep into that darkness peering, long i stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” ― the raven
• “even in the grave, all is not lost.”

• angela bassett
• angelina jolie
• cate blanchett
• eva green
• gina torres
• gillian anderson
• isabelle adjani
• isabelle huppert
• jessica chastain
• jessica lange
• jodie foster
• julianne moore
• julie delpy
• kate winslet
• lena headey
• liv ullmann
• meryl streep
• nicole kidman
• tilda swinton
• rachel weisz
• viola davies

• annie palmer
• aphrodite/venus
• baba yaga
• black annis
• boudicca
• cassandra
• cerridwen
• charlemagne
• circe
• erzsébet báthory
• frau holda
• galatea
• hecate
• king arthur
  • lady of the lake/nimue/viviane
  • morgan le fay
• lorelai
• marzana
• medea
• mermaids

• aœde
• aphrodite/venus
• arianhod
• ataegina
• athena
• badb
• cerridwen
• clio
• danu
• epona
• freyja
• macha
• minerva
• morrighan
• rhiannon
• selene
• trebopala

• alfred, lord tennyson
• john keats
• longfellow
• lord byron
• percy bysshe shelley
• tennyson
• the brontë sisters
• walt whitman
• william wordsworth

• thomas tallis
• claudio monteverdi
• gregorio allegri
• jean-baptiste lully
• johann pachelbel
• arcangelo corelli
• henry purcell
• alessandro scarlatti
• francois couperin
• antonio vivaldi
• georg philipp telemann
• jean-philippe rameau
• johann sebastian bach
• domenico scarlatti
• george friderick handel
• giovanni battista pergolesi
• christoph willibald gluck
• carl philipp emanuel bach
• franz joseph haydn
• johann christian bach
• luigi boccherini

alexandre dumas

• la reine margot
• the count of monte cristo
• the three musketeers

alexandre dumas fils

• la dame aux camélias

charles dickens

• ✔ a tale of two cities
• bleak house
• christmas books
  • a christmas carol
  • the chimes
  • the cricket on the hearth
  • the battle of life
  • the haunted man and the ghost's bargain
• david copperfield
• great expectations

• angel
• big little lies
• bones
• buffy
• charmed
• dark
• doctor who
• fringe
• gilmore girls
• hannibal
• killing eve
• mindhunter
• penny dreadful
• sharp objects
• the fall
• the haunting of bly manor
• the haunting of the hill house
• the x-files
• true blood
• true detective (1st season)
• twin peaks

1600–1699:

• 1607: l'orfeo by claudio monteverdi - this is widely regarded as the first operatic masterwork.
• 1640: il ritorno d'ulisse in patria by claudio monteverdi - monteverdi's first opera for venice, based on homer's odyssey, displays the composer's mastery of portrayal of genuine individuals as opposed to stereotypes.
• 1642: l'incoronazione di poppea by claudio monteverdi - monteverdi's last opera, composed for a venetian audience, is often performed today. its venetian context helps to explain the complete absence of the moralizing tone often associated with opera of this time.
• 1644: ormindo by francesco cavalli - one of the first of cavalli's operas to be revived in the 20th century, ormindo is considered one of his more attractive works....

• amalie bruun (from myrkur)
• ann wilson
• annelise ofstad aar (from lumsk)
• björk
• cecilia bartoli
• chelsea wolfe
• deborah voigt
• delphine galoy
• diana damrau
• elina garanca
• emma ruth rundle
• eva-maria westebroek
• fabianne erni (from eluveitie)
• floor jansen
• gunnhild sundli (from gåte)
• jayn h. wissenberg (from darkher)
• jenny wilhelms (from gjallarhorn)
• jessica bowen (from jex thoth)
• johanna sadonis (from lucifer)
• kari rueslåtten
• kate bush

• a grief observed, c.s. lewis
• a very easy death, simone de beauvoir
• bough down, karen green
• death be not proud, john j. gunther
• fun home: a family tragicomic, alison bechdel
• h is for hawk, helen mcdonald
• half a life, darin strauss
• her, christa parravani
• love is a mixtape: live and loss, one song at a time, rob sheffield
• mourning diary, roland barthes
• on death and dying, elisabeth kubler-ross
• smoke gets in your eyes: & other lessons from the crematory, caitlin doughty
• stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers, mary roach
• swimming in a sea of death: a son’s memoir, david rieff
• the accidental tourist, anne tyler

• "dreary, calm november days when there is but one cloud, but that one covers the whole heaven." ― geraldine and jane
• "the weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; my thoughts follow the exact same process." ― diary entry dated 21 april 1918

• centaurs
• chimera
• dragons
• elves
• fairies
• faun
• ghosts
• gnomes
• goblins
• griffin
• harpy
• hippocampus
• hippogriff
• incubus & succubus
• lamia
• leprechaun
• manticore
• mermaid / selkie/ siren
• nymphs
• pegasus
• satyr

• bears
• butterflies
• canadian lynx
• caracal
• cats
• cheetah
• falcons
• fennec foxes
• foxes
• deers (chital, elks, fallow deers, gray brockets, marsh deers, mooses, mule deers, reindeers, roe deers)
• dogs (alaskan malamute, belgian shepherd, czechoslovakian wolfdog, german shepherd, Saarloos wolfhound, samoyed, siberian husky)
• horses
• jaguar
• lions
• lynx
• moths

• ✔ carmilla by j. sheridan le fanu
• clarimonde by théophile gautier
• collected ghost stories by m.r. james
• ✔ dracula by bram stoker
• ✔ frankenstein by mary wollstonecraft shelley
• ✔ jane eyre by charlotte brontë
• ✔ northanger abbey by jane austen
• penny dreadfuls: sensational tales of terror by stefan r. dziemianowicz, e.t.a. hoffmann
• ✔ perfume: the story of a murderer by patrick süskind
• ✔ rebecca by daphne du maurier
• the bloody chamber and other stories by angela carter
• ✔ the complete stories and poems by edgar allan poe
• ✔ the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson
• the historian by elizabeth kostova

• agatha christie
• anne brontë
• anne rice
• charlotte brontë
• donna tartt
• elena ferrante
• emily brontë
• jane austen
• shirley jackson
• stepehn king

• books
• dreams
• labyrinths
• libraries
• magical worlds
• memories
• museums
• new cities
• smells
• woods

• absalom, absalom! by william faulkner
• a good man is hard to find and other stories by flannery o'connor
• ✔ as i lay dying by william faulkner
• everything that rises must converge by flannery o'connor
• light in august by william faulkner
• the gold-bug by edgar allan poe
• the sound and the fury by william faulkner
• the violent bear it away by flannery o'connor
• wise blood by flannery o'connor
• the heart is a lonely hunter by carson mccullers
• midnight in the garden of good and evil by john berendt
• a visitation of spirits by randall kenan
• a streetcar named desire by tennessee williams
• blackwood farm by anne rice

• abigail
• agnes
• aoife
• caitriona
• chantal
• etienne
• imogen
• lorelai/ lorelay/ lorelei/ loreley

• all the colors of the dark (tutti i colori del buio)
• alien
• alucarda
• annie hall
• the awakening
• batman
• batman returns
• beetlejuice
• before sunrise / before sunset / before midnight
• the beguiled
• black sunday
• blade runner
• blood on satan's claw
• blue jasmine
• blue velvet
• braindead
• bram stoker's dracula
• byzantium
• carrie

• arnold böcklin
• carl gustav carus
• caspar david friedrich
• claude monet
• dante gabriel rossetti
• edvard munch
• edward burne-jones
• elizabeth siddal
• ernst ferdinand oehme
• evelyn de morgan
• francisco goya
• gianlorenzo bernini
• gustav klimt
• gustave doré
• henry fuseli
• hilma af klint
• jean delville
• johann heinrich füssli
• john bauer
• john william waterhouse
• lawrence alma-tadema

• ana mendieta
• francesca woodman

• agnès varda
• ari aster
• ava duvernay
• chantal akerman
• claire denis
• dario argento
• david cronenberg
• david lynch
• ethan & joel cohen
• guillermo del toro
• jane campion
• jim jarmusch
• john carpenter
• jordan peele
• ingmar bergman
• mario bava
• maya deren
• peter jackson
• richard linklater
• steven soderberg
• tim burton

• "…i took refuge in the most perfect solitude. i passed whole days on the lake alone, in a little boat, watching the clouds, and listening to the rippling of the waves, silent and listless."
• "solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”
• "beware; for i am fearless, and therefore powerful."
• "…still it haunted me."
• "we will be monsters, alone in the world, but we will have each other."
• "to examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death."

• acolyte
• admoestar - advertir (alguém) de maneira branda (sobre alguma coisa); aconselhar
• adomania - the sense that the future is coming too quickly
• afanar - trabalhar demais (até cansar)
• alcova
• aldrava
• alexithymia
• almagrar - assinalar; marcar
• alvor - claridade fraca ou efêmera
• anaçar - agitar bastante; bater líquidos; misturar
• anecdoche - a conversation in which everyone is talking but no one is listening
• apodar - dirigir apodos/gracejos a
• arandela
• archaic
• arrojar - lançar-se com impeto ou força; precipitar-se de uma grande altura
• ataúde

• bagpipes
• bandolin
• bodhrán
• bukkehorn
• clavier
• fiddle
• guitarren laute
• gusle
• hammered dulcimer
• hardingfele
• harpischord
• hurdy-gurdy
• jouhikko
• kantele
• low whistle
• lute
• mandola
• mandolin
• nickelharpa
• oud
• piano