At a time when real life can feel like a nightmare, a collective turn toward the ghoulish and the ghastly might seem counterintuitive, but the Gothic genre has always offered a space to examine ...

It's cold and wet so no one wants to take smiling, happy portraits. So, why not turn to the dark side and try some gothic portraits? There’s a range of looks you can go for here, as is showcased ...

Gothic novels have been scaring us for 250 years. The mid-18th Century - an era of dark, satanic mills at home and nightmarish social upheaval abroad - saw public taste shift from traditional ...

But why do we call it 'goth'? We've asked Emma McEvoy, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Westminster and expert in all things Gothic, to tell us about how the word travelled through ...