Ibiza's Heights and a podcast

Ibiza's official tourism Instagram (via Diario de Ibiza) has declared that the brooding, windswept romanticism of Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights could be, actually, a way to promote the island. In a post proposing five spots around the old walled city where you can "recreate scenes" from the film, the town council has cheerfully transplanted Margot Robbie's tragic heroine — long braids, gothic gowns and all — from the fog-drenched English moors to the sun-baked Mediterranean. Baluard de Sant Bernat as a stand-in for the Earnshaw estate? The Portal de Ses Taules channelling windswept despair? Sure, why not?

One has to admire the audacity. Call it (tourist) cultural appropriation, call it creative rebranding — ei
ther way, Heathcliff would probably have preferred the weather.

And now, the podcast:

Talking Scared

267 – Wuthering Heights, with Agatha Andrews (from She Wore Black)

This Valentine’s week, come for a walk up on t’moors with me and Agatha Andrews.

I’ve invited Agatha, my friend and sister-in-Gothic, host of She Wore Black podcast, for a conversation about Wuthering Heights.

It’s known as “the greatest love story ever told,” but that’s such nonsense. Instead we talk about mania and melancholy, hate and power, cannibalism

and necrophilia… and we also look ahead to the Hollywood adaptation with bated (but amused) breath.

Enjoy!

Other books mentioned:

David Copperfield (1850), by Charles Dickens

The Brontës (1994), by Juliet Barker

The Gabriel Hounds (1964), by Mary Stewart

East of Eden (1952), by John Steinbeck

The Vampyre (1819), by John Polidori

The Favourites (2025), by Layne Fargo