For centuries, the world has been graced (and haunted) by Gothic literature. The exploration of monsters, the macabre, fear, anxiety, love, and death—this genre has always attracted readers and ...

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

“Spooky Season” makes readers hungry for horror — a genre with literary roots in Gothic fiction. In that case, October is a time to highlight women’s writing — as the Gothic is fundamentally a women’s ...

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 ...

Growing up in Pennsylvania as the daughter of a casket salesman, UMass Lowell’s Bridget Marshall, associate professor of English, became more familiar with death than most children. As a teenager, she ...