People have been salivating over mysteries even before the Sphinx offered her first riddle. What is it about a good who-done-it that engrosses audiences? Some like the chase. Some like the thrill o...

Drafty monasteries, windy moors, subterranean passageways, rotting mansions, dark castles at the top of the hill with lightning streaking across the sky: it's just your friendly Gothic neighborhood...

We don't know about you, but when we hear melodrama, we think reality TV.But melodrama was a thing way before the Real Housewives came around. Melodramatic plays took off in the 18th century and ga...

Vampires, ghosts, demons, (oh my!)—those dudes and other monsters got their big break in Gothic novels…and the world never looked back. In fact, absolutely no true Gothic tale would be complete...

We know the seemingly pitch-perfect Mr. Darcy is all the rage, but even he has a little bit of a brooding side—and you can definitely thank Gothic novels and their descendants for the bad-boy-as-...

Both parts of the damsel-in-distress/hero equations are part of the isolation game. The antihero is inherently misunderstood and the stock damsel-in-distress rarely has family or friends who care a...

Lots of Gothic lit is intensely anti-Catholic. Like, angry peasants with pitchforks anti-Catholic. Speaking of which, it's the long history of peasants with pitchforks, witches burned at the stake,...

Makes sense that architecture is a big deal for a literary movement in which the setting acts as a main character, right? In fact, if it weren't for Gothic architecture, a darker component of Roman...