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.

Rooted in medieval architecture and later expanded into literature, fashion and art, it stands as a symbol of mystery and the sublime. The origins of the Gothic aesthetic trace back to 12th-century ...

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 ...

I am Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature. My research interests are in Gothic literature, literature and science, nineteenth century literature, and critical theory. The Gothic of the ...

Because someone did with this 20th century Gothic Revival-style house of worship and made the executive decision to turn it into an unbelievable residence. Listed for $1.249 million, the five ...

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 ...

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.