Fainting Couches

The Worcester Telegram lists reads for Halloween. We can accept that Wuthering Heights has a more or less Gothic atmosphere but... The Tenant?

Every publishing house is focused on creepy books for Halloween. I’m less interested in them, though I’ve had my favorites over the years — Thomas Tryon’s “Harvest Home,” Anne Rice’s vampire novels, short stories by Guy de Maupassant. I enjoy Gothic stories, which combine a bit of romantic flourish with a little scariness, e.g., the old mysteries of Mary Stewart and Victoria Holt, “The Thirteenth Tale” by Diane Setter, “The Lace Reader” by Brunonia Barry and classics like “Wuthering Heights” and “Rebecca.”
I looked around at the options being brought forth. There are many new books, and I haven’t read most of them. Check the book display aisles in your favorite bookstore.
Here’s a list, though, of other temptations, some classic, some contemporary:
“The Distant Hours” and “The Lake House,” Kate Morton
“The Woman in Black,” Susan Hill
“The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,” a lesser-known Anne Brontë. (Ann Connery Frantz)

The Hindustan Times interviews the actress Sonam Kapoor:

If your house was on fire and you had to save three books, which three would you choose?
Sonam: I would save my Kindle [laughs]! (...)Then I’d save some hardbound classics that I liked when I was younger, like the Brontë sisters, Jane Austen and stuff like that.
Name your favourite authors. (...)
Sonam: The Brontë sisters. I think in that day and age they were true feminists, and at that time women weren’t even allowed to write, so the fact that they broke the glass ceiling is inspiring to me. (Zuni Chopra)

The Guardian's Book Clinic is about northern gothic novels. Philip Hensher says:

The north has formed a natural fit with the gothic at least since the Brontës. Bram Stoker’s Dracula has turned Whitby into a capital of gothic extravagance. Ever since, writers have gone on exploring the combination of natural wildness, extremes of grandeur and suffering, and frequent flashes of bizarre humour. 

HorrorNews reviews the film The House of Violent Desire:

This film has secrets aplenty that would make the Brontë sisters take to their fainting couches with the most convulsive of vapours. (Glenn MacLeod)

Yorkshire, Brontë and steam trains in La Stampa (Italy):

I traballanti vagoni storici per motivi logistici non collegano tutti i luoghi meritevoli della regione, ma, insieme allo sbalorditivo Museo dei Trasporti di York, formano un fascinoso fil rouge
Forse perché la prima tratta ferroviaria al mondo fu tracciata ai confini dello Yorkshire (nel 1825, la Stockton-Darlington) e forse perché le locomotive a vapore sbuffavano, e sbuffano ancora grazie al carbone estratto nei dintorni della loro Wakefield, certo è che gli eredi di Henri Moore e delle sorelle Brontë venerano i treni d’epoca. (Andrea Battaglini) (Translation)

Il Manifesto (Italy) talks about Jean Rhys's works:

Cosa racconta del resto anche Il grande mare dei sargassi, quel capolavoro travestito da prequel di Jane Eyre che nel ’66 segnò la sua riscoperta dopo un silenzio protrattosi per quasi trent’anni, se non la storia di una donna creola trapiantata in Inghilterra e abbandonata dall’uomo che ama, precipitata nella follia per il disprezzo e l’incomprensione e il gelo di un mondo che le è estraneo? (Margherita Ghilardi) (Translation)

Trouw (Netherlands) reviews the novel Crusoe's daughter by Jane Gardam:

Pas op haar zestiende komt zij voor het eerst buiten het dorp bij een familie in Yorkshire, de Thwaites, van wie pas later blijkt in welke relatie ze tot Polly staan. Hier begrijpt ze hoe haar tantes haar ‘in een vacuüm’ hebben laten zitten. Polly: “Ik hou van het moeras en van Oversands en ik weet dat ik in een heel boeiend landschap woon, zoals de gezusters Brontë. Maar tante Frances, ik heb zo mijn vragen over de gezusters Brontë. Ik vraag me af of het ooit de bedoeling is geweest dat mensen helemaal met een landschap vergroeien. Ik ben tenslotte helemaal niet mystiek, ik wil niet eens het Vormsel ontvangen.” (Laura van Baars) (Translation)

Es Diario (Spain) quotes Isa Pantoja from a local reality show contest:

Ya en los pasillos del estudio, la hija de la Pantoja inclusó habló de lecturas favoritas. Y contó que le apasiona la vieja narrativa inglesa. "Cumbres borrascosas, de Emile Bronté( (sic), o las novelas de Jane Austen", citó Isa, añadiendo que suele leerlas en inglés, idioma sobre el que posee un gran dominio. (Translation)

Finally an alert from the Hebden Bridge Arts Festival:

I'm No Bird and Magpahi (Alison Cooper)
Sunday, October 28, 2018 at 5 PM – 8 PM UTC
Hope Baptist Church, Hebden Bridge

 As part of the Weekend Of Wonderful Women from Hebden Bridge Arts Festival.
A screening of 'I’m No Bird', a short film comprising images of local women at work at play throughout the 20th century taken from the Yorkshire Film Archive and accompanied by a soundtrack by Todmorden-based musician Magpahi (Alison Cooper).
Alison will also be performing two specially commissioned songs inspired by local suffragettes.

The Brontë Babe Blog posts about her own experience with internet trolls, Brontë version.