One of the biggest genre elements in the gothic genre is the sins of the protagonist coming back to haunt them. The ...

Frankenstein is a stand-out title in Gothic literature because of its eerie imagery and haunting narrative, but mainly because of the titular characters iconic experiment. Shelleys breakthrough ...

“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 ...

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 ...

But Opal, the main character of the book ... In writing about class, Harrow joins a long tradition of authors writing Gothic fiction as a way to process the ills of society.

Even fewer novelists go quite so big the first time out as Milas has, dreaming up a gothic novel about 21st-century ... shows what is terrifying to the characters in the sense of the war in ...