Dafni Ma divides her time between Greece, England, and Lithuania, or wherever her book-sniffing nose takes her. She has worked as an author, ghostwriter, editor, copywriter, publisher, screenwriter, ...

If your springtime looks a little chilly, I've got a great selection of books you can cozy up to. I've picked out 15 new Gothic books you can read this spring, so get ready to lose yourself in a ...

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

Simmering tension, foggy moors, candlelit corridors, hidden secrets, yearning emotion…gothic fiction has always been enthralling but right now the genre is having a major resurgence in film and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I wish I would've embraced being a 'weird' Black girl who loved cutesy things as much as she enjoyed reading about monstrous ...

The Castle of Otranto is considered the first supernatural English novel and also the first gothic novel. It describes itself as a translation of an Italian story from the Middle Ages about Manfred, ...

Dr. Diana Edelman, interim assistant head of the Department of English, had her book, "Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel," published. The book focuses on the research about the early British ...

November is here. For many, that means tree decorating and cookie baking, but not all of us are ready to let spooky season go so quickly. The weather is growing colder, and the days are growing ...

Growing up in Pennsylvania as the daughter of a casket salesman, Assoc. Prof. Bridget Marshall became more familiar with death than most children. As a teenager, she loved Stephen King novels. Then in ...

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