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The Gothic Hearts Reading Challenge. Follow my co-hosts:
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Prompts (complete 4 or more of the following)
1.Heathcliff’s Curse~ Read a Gothic romance where love becomes obsession or vengeance.
2. Love Beyond the Grave~ Read a Gothic romance where one lover is dead, undead, or haunting the living.
3. Her Dark Reflection~ Read a Gothic romance featuring a morally gray or dangerous heroine.
4. Letters Never Meant to Be Read~ Read a Gothic romance told through letters, journals, confessions, or fragmented records.
5. Love in the Fog - Read a Gothic romance set in a bleak, isolated landscape, moors, cliffs, forests, or coastal ruins.
6. A House with a Temperament - Read a book in which a home, estate or location feels alive or oppressive.
7. The Outsider - Read a book featuring a character who never truly belongs.
8. Everyone Suffers - Read a book that makes you feel emotionally wrecked by the end.

Optional Activities
Activity 1: The Weather Witness

Outside Version: Sit outside during rain, wind, fog, dusk, or overcast skies. Read a page or two from a Gothic romance and note how the weather mirrors the emotional tension of the story. Share a photo or a short-written impression.
Indoor Version: Open a window, dim the lights, and play ambient storm or wind sounds. Read the same passage and write how the imagined weather changes the scene’s mood.

Activity 2 : The Heart’s Confession
Write a short Gothic love confession, from the perspective of a doomed lover, a ghost, a villain, or someone who loves too deeply. Can be on a gothic post card you make or buy.
Activity 3: A Love That Should Not Be
Watch a Gothic romance film where love defies reason, society, or mortality (Examples: ghost lovers, doomed couples, forbidden bonds)

Activity 4 - Write an original epigraph inspired by Wuthering Heights energy.
Rules (loose, gothic):
1–4 lines only
Can be poetry or prose
Can be a “quote” from a:
• fictional diary
• ghost
• doomed lover
• house
*Should hint at obsession, longing or ruin

Activity 5
The Candle of Longing Gothic Hearts Ritual to honor love that cannot survive untouched. Ritual:
1. Light a candle beside your current Gothic romance.
2. Read a passage involving yearning, distance, or unspoken desire.
3. Let the candle burn for the length of the scene, then extinguish it slowly.
4. Write In Your Journal on this question: What does this love demand, and what does it destroy?
*Please take all safety precautions in the above activity.