With elements ranging from crumbling castles and ghostly visions to tortured characters and eerie atmospheres, Gothic horror has been giving readers spine-tingling thrills since the eighteenth century ...

Gothicism is a genre of literature often underestimated in its importance. It was the gothic that gave rise to such subgenres as science fiction and horror, which stand among the most popular of ...

A little over two centuries before Guillermo del Toro’s 2025 film adaptation of Frankenstein starring Jacob Elordi and Mia Goth came to the big screen, Mary Shelley set her mind to writing a ghost ...

The Gothic Wanderer: From Transgression to Redemption by Tyler R. Tichelaar, Ph.D., provides the reader with an important balance of literary history, scholarly analysis, and contemporary relevance, ...

When people hear the word ‘horror’, they might often think of violence, fear, and of women in peril. But the relationship between horror and women is far richer – and far more surprising – than many ...

From cobwebs to candelabras, the gothic genre has distinctive traits everyone can recognize. Beginning in early literature ...

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 ...

Ahlissa is a Horror Features contributor at Collider. She's been a media writer for nearly 10 years. You can find her other work in FANGORIA, The Feminine Macabre, Haunted Magazine, and more. Her ...