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, ...

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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 ...

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

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 ...

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The term gothic was first applied to fiction in the mid-18th century, and to this day conjures brooding atmospheres, crumbling mansions, and tormented characters. Beyond the eerie tropes, it’s a genre ...

Like many others, I found it difficult to keep up my usual reading pace last year. Normally, I can easily read over 75 books in a year, but 2020 tested my patience and ability to focus in ways I’m ...

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