In Eden, Kentucky, the air is thick with dust. The dying coal town is the fictional setting of Alix E. Harrow’s “Starling House,” and the smog of fading power and bad luck is enough to suffocate its ...
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 ...
“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, Assoc. Prof. Bridget Marshall became more familiar with death than most children. As a teenager, she loved Stephen King novels. Then in ...
In his new novel Revelator, Shirley Jackson Award winner Daryl Gregory spins an addictive tale of Southern gothic-tinged horror, set alternately in 1936 and 1948 in Tennessee’s Smoky Mountains.
On 26 May 1897, a quiet Irish theatre manager published a yellow-bound Gothic horror novel about a Transylvanian count. 129 ...
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