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 ...

Gothic novels like Wuthering Heights and The Phantom of the Opera have become even more timeless thanks to the movie ...

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, ...

Despite over 40 films, television and radio adaptations, Wuthering Heights is still often remembered as an “obsessive romance.” In reality, it is a Gothic Romance – and more specifically, a story that ...

The gothic aesthetic is one of sprawling ruins and crumbling walls, barren landscapes and monstrous creatures: beautiful things that have fallen to decay. The genre has a long history, flourishing in ...

Editor's Note: This is the first part of a two-part column. The second piece will be published in Ovation on Feb. 10. Missouri has long dipped its toe into the edge of the deep swamp that is Gothic ...