When you think “gothic,” you think about dark, foreboding, mysterious. In literature, it is all of those things. Dr. Heidi Backes says it is often constructed to tell a tale about the underlying ...

Warning: This article discusses topics of violence, death, and sexual matters. Gothic books and short stories are an important part of literary history, and several are defining titles in the genre.

Whether you are watching a horror classic, such as “The Shining” or “Poltergeist,” or laughing at the over-the-top antics of “Beetlejuice” or the “Ghostbusters,” ghost stories abound during Halloween.

These five works of Welsh gothic literature will not only help you explore Wales through the macabre but are likely to give you a good scare too. A recent addition to the “spooky” calendar of events ...

With days till October arrives, book lovers across the globe are preparing for spooky reads full of ghosts, vampires, ...

After the Civil War, the Southern ruling class got to work idealizing the antebellum era of slavery, painting a picture of sweeping oaks, genteel folk and honeyed drawls. "The Lost Cause" was an ideal ...

Gothic and technology appear, on the surface, to evoke contradictory connotations. As David Punter and Glennis Byron highlight, the Gothic came to be a term associated with the “ornate and convoluted” ...