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 ...

Simmering tension, foggy moors, candlelit corridors, hidden secrets, yearning emotion…gothic fiction has always been enthralling but right now the genre is having a major resurgence in film and ...

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 ...

Rooted in medieval architecture and later expanded into literature, fashion and art, it stands as a symbol of mystery and the sublime. The origins of the Gothic aesthetic trace back to 12th-century ...

Lightning flashes across the sky, illuminating a castle. A ghost calls out the name of a lover who once spurned them. A young woman tries to undo a curse that has plagued her family for centuries. You ...

In Eden, Kentucky, the air is thick with dust. The dying coal town is the fictional setting of Alix E. Harrow’s “Starling House,” and the smog of fading power and bad luck is enough to suffocate its ...

Gothic literature has always thrived on darkness, both literal and metaphorical. From fog-covered moors and shadowy corridors inside crumbling estates, these works traverse humanity, fear, desire, ...

Gothic fiction is experiencing a revival, if it ever truly died. Originally conceived as a shadowy counterpoint to the Age of Enlightenment’s sunny rationality, Gothic novels have lurked the literary ...