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, ...

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

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” ...

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 ...

Raise your hand if you went through a goth phase in middle school. Yeah, we thought so. And while it's funny to look back and laugh at this being a kind of absurd trend (it's amazing how much black ...

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