Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a feminist and leading contributor to the women's rights movement in the United States in the late 1800s. She was also a writer best known for her short story "The Yellow ...

From cobwebs to candelabras, the gothic genre has distinctive traits everyone can recognize. Beginning in early literature and now brought to life in the movies, gothic tales have made an irreversible ...

The answer is C. Frankenstein. First up, you’ll need to wrap up warm. There aren’t many tropical beaches in gothic fiction. Expect wind, rain and thunderstorms and things that go bump in the night.

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 ...

Children are often in danger in Gothic novels, left in the care of very inappropriate adults. Like the alchemist in M. R. James’s Lost Hearts who has a unsavoury interest in his young guest, or Peter ...

A Victorian vampire kit contains all the necessary equipment for hunting down vampires A new exhibition at the British Library in London looks at the changing taste for the Gothic in British writing.

There is a surge in goth-lit that channels our fears and anxieties. Hephzibah Anderson explores how the genre's past and new stories delve deep into disorder and darkness. "We live in Gothic times," ...