Gothic horror has roots in literary works that existed long before cinema was created. Pioneered by Horace Walpole with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, it is the daddy of all horror. Like its ...

In Eden, Kentucky, the air is thick with dust. The dying coal town is the fictional setting of Alix E. Harrow’s “Starling House,” and the smog of fading power and bad luck is enough to suffocate its ...

While gothic fiction has been prevalent since the 18th century, it reappears as a staple of popular culture during moments of social and political transition. It makes sense, then, that the gothic has ...