Queer Gothic fiction is dangerous in the best way: it whispers, it seduces, it drags you into dark hallways where desire ...

Love 'Wuthering Heights'? Discover six classic Gothic novels filled with dark romance, obsession, and tragedy, from 'Jane Eyre' to 'Rebecca.' ...

Gothic novels like Wuthering Heights and The Phantom of the Opera have become even more timeless thanks to the movie ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Shirley Jackson is one of the iconic writers of horror of the 20th century, and her final novel, We Have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...