Does anyone ever sit in church and think, “golly, this would make a nifty home?” Because someone did with this 20th century ...

Horace Walpole published the first gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto , set in a labyrinthine castle surrounded by woods.

Gothic novels have been scaring us for 250 years. The mid-18th Century - an era of dark, satanic mills at home and nightmarish social upheaval abroad - saw public taste shift from traditional ...

In 18th-century gothic, music was a light melodic release from dramatic scares. But with the arrival of melodrama in the 19th century, gothic music became much darker.

I realised that none of the music from the 1790s – a period when gothic was phenomenally popular – was intended to scare. On the contrary, it was called upon to provide relief from the scare. In late ...