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 ...

With the release of Frankenstein in 2025 and more gothic movies lined up for 2026, we explore why Hollywood is seeing a ...

A power-obsessed lord, a collapsing lineage, and a castle filled with fear set the stage for a story that exposes the ...

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 ...

“Spooky Season” makes readers hungry for horror — a genre with literary roots in Gothic fiction. In that case, October is a time to highlight women’s writing — as the Gothic is fundamentally a women’s ...

This essay does not wish to disqualify the important work done on the Female Gothic. The themes this work has identified (women’s domestic incarceration, sexual violence, economic disenfranchisement ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: The below contains spoilers for Season 2 Episode 5 of House of the Dragon. Gothic literature stems from Romanticism, emphasizing the beauty of nature, extreme emotion, and the macabre ...

The subgenre can feature elements of fantasy, historical fiction, mystery, mythology and more By day, Marianne Gordon works as an editor at an academic publisher, and by night she loves to write ...