On Thursday, a crowd gathered in Moulton Union’s Main Lounge for a lecture titled “Ambulatory Gothic: House Tours in the ...

Whether you are watching a horror classic, such as “The Shining” or “Poltergeist,” or laughing at the over-the-top antics of “Beetlejuice” or the “Ghostbusters,” ghost stories abound during Halloween.

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 gothic aesthetic is one of sprawling ruins and crumbling walls, barren landscapes and monstrous creatures: beautiful things that have fallen to decay. The genre has a long history, flourishing in ...

A power-obsessed lord, a collapsing lineage, and a castle filled with fear set the stage for a story that exposes the monsters born from human desire. 'The Castle of Otranto' becomes a mirror for the ...

You have your Southern Gothic tales and your Westerns, the San Francisco beats and the New York poets — but what is the literary tradition of the Midwest? It’s a hazy question: People don’t think of ...

Gothic literature has always thrived on darkness, both literal and metaphorical. From fog-covered moors and shadowy corridors inside crumbling estates, these works traverse humanity, fear, desire, ...

Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Film, Manchester Metropolitan University The spectre of the Civil War continues to haunt Spain in many different ways. It manifests itself overtly in ...