Colonial and Postcolonial Gothic: empire, landscape, and what returns
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Gothic Literature
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Body Gothic: when the body becomes the horror
What is Body Gothic? Body Gothic turns the Gothic inward. The body becomes the site of instability, changing, failing, resisting,…
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Gothic Romance: love stories with a shadow
What is Gothic Romance? Gothic Romance is where attraction and unease coexist. The relationship itself carries tension, distance, secrecy, imbalance,…
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Cosmic Gothic: horror at the edge of understanding
Traditional Gothic asks what’s hidden in the house, the family, or the past; there’s a cause, even if it’s buried….
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The Case Against Satan by Ray Russell: The possession novel before The Exorcist
Ray Russell published The Case Against Satan in 1962, nine years before William Peter Blatty wrote The Exorcist. That chronology…
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Best books on Queer Gothics: where to start with the subgenre
I’ve always found the Gothic drawn to what’s left unsaid. It’s the thing in the locked room, the secret that…
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Best books on Ecclesiastical Gothic
The confessional is a box. The convent is a set of walls with a gate that locks from the outside….
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Folk Gothic: where the land remembers
What is Folk Gothic? Folk Gothic is rooted in place. It’s not about a single haunted house or a single…
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Slewfoot by Brom: Fear, beauty, and the devil in Puritan New England
Slewfoot is terrifying in the way the best fairy tales are terrifying, where horror and beauty keep feeding into each…
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15 best books like Rebecca for readers who love Gothic suspense
Some novels create such a complete atmosphere that readers spend years trying to find it again. Rebecca is one of…
