Deliciously dark and governed by a uniquely sublime aesthetic, Gothic novels have captured the spirit and imagination of readers across the globe since Horace Walpole first wrote The Castle of ...

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.

These themes and impending bad fortune are often hinted at in the gothic novels through ominous warnings or symbolic omens, such as a full moon or a raven. Gothic literature often contrasts ...

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I can't stop thinking about Nosferatu, and I know why. Robert Eggers obviously created a cinematic masterpiece, but it's the ...

There’s nothing quite like curling up with a gothic novel to welcome in the colder weather. These are 11 of our favourites. There’s something about autumn that always makes me feel like I’m ...

The Marquis de Sade, however, an outsider if there ever was one, had quite contemporary reasons for proclaiming the Gothic romance to be simply the "modern novel." Ce genre ... devenait le fruit ...

In 18th-century gothic, music was a light melodic release from dramatic scares. But with the arrival of melodrama in the 19th century, gothic music became much darker.

Joan Aiken’s neo-Gothic; Joseph Roth’s family epic.

Emma McEvoy received a research grant from the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust for the project "The Music of Gothic Literature and Theatre 1790-1820". Central to the popularity of gothic is ...