The Horror of Innistrad | Dissecting Gothic, Cosmic, and Cinematic Terror

This video investigates the shifting locus of fear on the Gothic plane of Innistrad.

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🎵 Music:
Frédéric Chopin - No. 20 C# Minor, Lento con gran espressione
Erik Satie - Gymnopedie No.3
Frédéric Chopin - No.21 C Minor
Gluck / Siloti - Orfeo ed Euridice
Vanilla - Crystals
Vanilla - Time

📘 Chapters:
0:00 Shudder
1:02 The Light of the Gothic Moon
5:31 Four Regions - Four Monsters
13:52 The Humans are Terrified
18:30 Something Cosmic This Way Comes
25:00 Horrific Dissonance
30:16 On a Dark and Silver Screen
35:25 Comfort Fears
39:39 Credits

📓 Sources:
Stoker, Bram. Dracula. 1897.
Wyatt, James. The Art of Magic: the Gathering: Innistrad. Perfect Square. 2016.
https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Innistrad...) - Mtg Wiki: Innistrad
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles... - A Planeswalker’s Guide to Innistrad (2011)
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles... - Art Direction of Innistrad (2011)
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles... - Planeswalker’s Guide: Gavony and Humans (2011)
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/... - Planeswalker’s Guide: Kessig and Werewolves (2011)
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles... - Planeswalker’s Guide: Nephalia and the Undead (2011)
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles... - Planeswalker’s Guide: Stensia and Vampires (2011)
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles... - Planeswalker’s Guide: Innistrad Midnight Hunt (2021)
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles... - Costuming (2011)
https://www.hipstersofthecoast.com/20... - Innistrad Midnight Hunt Grand Art Tour (2021)
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles... - Innistrad design handoff document
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles... - Odds and Ends: Innistrad Midnight Hunt (2021)
https://www.rpgpub.com/threads/gothic... - Gothic and Cosmic Horror are inherently incompatible
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_... - Gothic fiction wiki
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26356385 - The Haunter of the Dark: Lovecraft and Modern Horror Cinema (2015)
https://chopin.nifc.pl/en/chopin/komp... - Chopin, No. 20 C# Minor
The Nature of Horror - Noël Carroll (1987)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/431308
The Paradox of Horror: Fear as a Positive Emotion - Katerina Bantinaki (2012)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43496533
Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess - Linda Williams (1991)
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