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 ...

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 ...

An interest in this kind of literature is a passing thing for most people, but throughout my life I have returned to the ...

While gothic fiction has been prevalent since the 18th century, it reappears as a staple of popular culture during moments of social and political transition. It makes sense, then, that the gothic has ...

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, ...

The Eternal Dream hits stores this Wednesday. LOLtron examines how one woman's tragedy birthed history's most famous monster.

The entire bottom half of the poster of Pablo Larraín's Spencer is swallowed by the enormous, billowing skirt of a white dress. It isn’t a wedding dress, but it suggests a wedding dress. It looks ...

The phrase “gothic literature” may conjure images of madwomen in attics and supernatural goings-on within imposing castle walls. But that’s not the whole story. “Gothic can mean a bunch of different ...