Three short stories by female Victorian writers. Ghost stories are not about the dead – but the fears of the living. Our mistresses of the macabre, female writers from the 19th and early 20th century, ...

What do Gothic novels and the supernatural have to do with feminism? A surprising amount. Back in the 18th century, Gothic novels and ghost stories – many written by and for women – began to gain ...

Gothic and technology appear, on the surface, to evoke contradictory connotations. As David Punter and Glennis Byron highlight, the Gothic came to be a term associated with the “ornate and convoluted” ...

From Mary Shelley to Louisa May Alcott, these women writers helped shape the horror genre.

Goth is much more than descending into the void of Hot Topic or a proclivity for all things bleak and black—it’s a counterculture that has spawned its own coterie of music, literature, film, and art.

Sometimes in the middle of the night, after a few hours of heavy swirling at our favorite goth club, Björk commanded, “Shh!” We stood still, fingers quietly pressed against MAC-stained lips, face ...

Perri Nemiroff is the 2025 Press Award winner at the ICG Publicists Awards. She's the senior producer at Collider where she hosts and produces the interview series, Collider Ladies Night, a show ...

But reading novels wasn’t “considered a particularly intellectual pursuit” by critics of the time, and because gothic novels ...