With roots in the 18th century, this haunted genre’s hallmarks can be found throughout modern horror. Here’s where to start.

The lyrics have a desperate narrator with blood on his hands—or maybe dirt, from burying a body— who turns to dodgy backwoods spiritualism for his hoped-for-redemption, on the chance that it will keep ...

Another of Corman’s Poe adaptations, The Masque of the Red Death follows Prince Prospero (Price) as he secludes himself and ...

The main characters are humanities professors. Sorry, Baby’s Agnes (Eva Victor) is a young, creative writing professor at a ...

For its painstaking physicality alone, stop-motion is inherently impressive as an animation technique, no matter the scale or ...

Its festival has included performances from Dame Judi Dench, Jude Law, and even former US president Bill Clinton ...

Shelley continued writing her story, Frankenstein, when she returned home to Bath. The anonymously published book opens with ...

When Henry invites Catherine to stay at Northanger Abbey, the home of his father, General Tilney, she imagines secret passages, haunted catacombs and an evil secret. Catherine does indeed find ...

This Halloween, we revisit Rhidian Davis’s reckoning with the gothic’s many monstrous manifestations, from silent film to Hammer horror to Twilight. From our November 2013 issue.

The writer's early life in Dublin and reading material give valuable insights into his ghostly tales and supernatural horror ...

Atwood's 'Book of Lives' has to be the most spectacular, hilarious, and generous autobiography of the last quarter century — ...

Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 gothic novel is in theaters now and arrives on Netflix on November 7.