Warning: This article discusses topics of violence, death, and sexual matters. Gothic books and short stories are an important part of literary history, and several are defining titles in the ...

If a single character's style is enough to make an anime gothic, Re-L is enough for Ergo Proxy. As an investigator for Rondo's Intelligence Bureau, Re-L is caught up in a chain of baffling incidents.

Through Gothic literature, women writers have developed and dominated horror storytelling since the 18th Century to discuss social issues or to write complex female characters without focusing on ...

Gothic fantasy, a genre that has existed for centuries but frequently battles to change, has been driven into fresh ground by ...

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 ...

Poole says that from its very beginnings in the 18th century, Gothic fiction has responded to historical trauma. It’s insistent that history does not go away.

"It tells you that maybe she's looking back and remembering something because she's not happy about the situation now or it's a clue to his character and something [being] not quite right underneath ...

Alix E. Harrow's Starling House depicts a dying, fictional coal town's horrors and dark past. Harrow joins a long tradition of authors writing Gothic fiction as a way to process the ills of society.