The author of “If We Were Villains” recommends novels that will make you shiver with delight one moment and recoil in horror ...

I can't stop thinking about Nosferatu, and I know why. Robert Eggers obviously created a cinematic masterpiece, but it's the gothic horror theme that I appreciate more than anything. Some of my ...

Gothic books and short stories are an important part of literary history, and several are defining titles in the genre. The term is often vague, but at its core, gothic stories spark fear in a reader.

Horror is having a moment. Once confined largely to Halloween, or at least to October, “spooky season” has evolved into a monthslong ...

The novel, which has been retrospectively classed as ‘Male Gothic', features the genre’s typical themes of a lone male, exiled and an outsider. On the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron ...