With elements ranging from crumbling castles and ghostly visions to tortured characters and eerie atmospheres, Gothic horror has been giving readers spine-tingling thrills since the eighteenth century ...

Gothicism is a genre of literature often underestimated in its importance. It was the gothic that gave rise to such subgenres as science fiction and horror, which stand among the most popular of ...

A little over two centuries before Guillermo del Toro’s 2025 film adaptation of Frankenstein starring Jacob Elordi and Mia Goth came to the big screen, Mary Shelley set her mind to writing a ghost ...

Editor's Note: The below contains spoilers for Season 2 Episode 5 of House of the Dragon. Gothic literature stems from Romanticism, emphasizing the beauty of nature, extreme emotion, and the macabre ...

Growing up in Pennsylvania as the daughter of a casket salesman, Assoc. Prof. Bridget Marshall became more familiar with death than most children. As a teenager, she loved Stephen King novels. Then in ...

When people hear the word ‘horror’, they might often think of violence, fear, and of women in peril. But the relationship between horror and women is far richer – and far more surprising – than many ...

From cobwebs to candelabras, the gothic genre has distinctive traits everyone can recognize. Beginning in early literature ...

The literary scholar’s The Roma blends a history of Romani persecution and civil rights struggles with her own experiences of discrimination as a Roma woman in Britain. Your book is partly a memoir ...