October is here, we’re all getting chillier (yet somehow the tube stays just as hot?) and everywhere we go, Halloween paraphernalia seems to be creeping out of various stockrooms… Although our month on the site isn’t dedicated to the scariest night of the year per se, it wouldn’t be October on the 4th Estate blog without something gothic/monstrous… Read more…
This month our blog theme is Family Reunion, and last month it was Love In All Its Forms, so for this edition of 4x4th Estate we’ve combined the two, with icky results. But icky is at may be, incest has always been an important theme in literature, from the epic poetry of Classical Greece to the latest blockbuster book adaptation on HBO. Here are four sets of fictional siblings who prove that when it comes to a good romantic plot, sometimes it’s more interesting to keep it in the family:
