Three short stories by female Victorian writers. Ghost stories are not about the dead – but the fears of the living. Our mistresses of the macabre, female writers from the 19th and early 20th century, ...

Gothic and technology appear, on the surface, to evoke contradictory connotations. As David Punter and Glennis Byron highlight, the Gothic came to be a term associated with the “ornate and convoluted” ...

What do Gothic novels and the supernatural have to do with feminism? A surprising amount. Back in the 18th century, Gothic novels and ghost stories – many written by and for women – began to gain ...

Sometimes in the middle of the night, after a few hours of heavy swirling at our favorite goth club, Björk commanded, “Shh!” We stood still, fingers quietly pressed against MAC-stained lips, face ...

Goth is much more than descending into the void of Hot Topic or a proclivity for all things bleak and black—it’s a counterculture that has spawned its own coterie of music, literature, film, and art.

Perri Nemiroff is the 2025 Press Award winner at the ICG Publicists Awards. She's the senior producer at Collider where she hosts and produces the interview series, Collider Ladies Night, a show ...

Beautiful woman, check. Long flowing dress, check. Mist-shrouded, foreboding mansion in the background, check. Welcome to the world of gothic romance, possibly fiction’s most limited genre if these ...

Domestic violence, alcoholism, child abuse, neglect, sexual obsession and torture: Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel Wuthering Heights is nothing if not graphic in its depiction of the messy, frightening and ...