The answer is C. Frankenstein. First up, you’ll need to wrap up warm. There aren’t many tropical beaches in gothic fiction. Expect wind, rain and thunderstorms and things that go bump in the night.

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 ...

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 ...

A Victorian vampire kit contains all the necessary equipment for hunting down vampires A new exhibition at the British Library in London looks at the changing taste for the Gothic in British writing.

Ever since I began writing at a very young age, I noticed that there was a certain element in my words that made them dark, and at times, even sadistic. As I pursued my education in English Literature ...