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, it’s a genre ...

Lightning flashes across the sky, illuminating a castle. A ghost calls out the name of a lover who once spurned them. A young woman tries to undo a curse that has plagued her family for centuries. You ...

Gothic literature has given us some of the medium's all-time best masterpieces, including Jane Eyre and The Strange Case of ...

With elements ranging from crumbling castles and ghostly visions to tortured characters and eerie atmospheres, Gothic horror has been giving readers spine-tingling thrills since the eighteenth century ...

“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 ...

Growing up in Pennsylvania as the daughter of a casket salesman, UMass Lowell’s Bridget Marshall, associate professor of English, became more familiar with death than most children. As a teenager, she ...