Dafni Ma divides her time between Greece, England, and Lithuania, or wherever her book-sniffing nose takes her. She has worked as an author, ghostwriter, editor, copywriter, publisher, screenwriter, ...

I can't stop thinking about Nosferatu, and I know why. Robert Eggers obviously created a cinematic masterpiece, but it's the gothic horror theme that I appreciate more than anything. Some of my ...

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 Castle of Otranto is considered the first supernatural English novel and also the first gothic novel. It describes itself as a translation of an Italian story from the Middle Ages about Manfred, ...

Dr. Diana Edelman, interim assistant head of the Department of English, had her book, "Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel," published. The book focuses on the research about the early British ...

In the introduction to WEIRD WOMEN: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers 1852-1923 (Pegasus, 384 pp., $25.95), the editors Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger write that horror ...

The term gothic was first applied to fiction in the mid-18th century, and to this day conjures brooding atmospheres, crumbling mansions, and tormented characters. Beyond the eerie tropes, it’s a genre ...

Like many others, I found it difficult to keep up my usual reading pace last year. Normally, I can easily read over 75 books in a year, but 2020 tested my patience and ability to focus in ways I’m ...

BOUNDARY AGAINST NIGHT—Edmund Gilligan—Farrar & Rinehart ($2.75). Critics say that U. S. fiction began with the gothic romances of Charles Brockden Brown. They mean that it began with weird plots, ...

WITCHCRAFT The Library of Esoterica Edited by Jessica Hundley and Pam Grossman TAROT FOR CHANGE Using the Cards for Self-Care, Acceptance, and Growth By Jessica Dore What does “Gothic” mean to you?