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 ...

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 ...

Few novelists could carry off the unstable mix of historical and gothic fiction in The Accursed, and even fewer could do it at such elaborate length. Even the prolific Joyce Carol Oates didn’t dash ...

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 ...

The genre has always been adept at condensing social anxieties into memorable villains – so what will the horrific embodiment of our age be? Gothic has always been a particularly reactive genre. It ...

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 ...

Farrell O’Gorman’s new book sets for itself an ambitious goal: It defines and illustrates a new paradigm for reading many major fictional narratives both within and outside the canon of American ...