With this inherent subjectivity and literary tradition simultaneously in mind, we’ve curated a selection of some of the best Gothic literature ever written. The first ever Gothic novel proclaims ...

From grey ladies, ghostly animals, poltergeists and disembodied heads, Abbey House boasts hauntings straight from the pages of a classical Gothic novel. Local legends talk of a nun from the ...

These themes and impending bad fortune are often hinted at in the gothic novels through ominous warnings or symbolic omens, such as a full moon or a raven. Gothic literature often contrasts ...

The Scottish writer’s fourth novel, published 200 years ago, depicts a fatal sibling rivalry and one young man’s descent into evil and madness. This multilayered gothic work takes bold ...

When you examine gothic novels through the lens of food, it can make you understand them in a different way, Pino explains. She cites a scene in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, after the unnamed heroine ...

In the 1790s, the music of Gothic novels and plays is not Gothic music; it is celebratory, calming or transcendent rather than scary. By 1820, the music of Gothic is more likely to provoke shock, ...