Gothic books and short stories are an important part of literary history, and several are defining titles in the genre. The term is often vague, but at its core, gothic stories spark fear in a reader.

The author of “If We Were Villains” recommends novels that will make you shiver with delight one moment and recoil in horror the next. By M.L. Rio M.L. Rio is the best-selling author of “If ...

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 ...

Books: Urban Gothic. 5 minute read. TIME. October 10, 1969 12:00 AM GMT-4. THEM by Joyce Carol Oates. 508 pages. Vanguard. $6.95. The difference between heroes and most people is that heroes have ...

The new books publishing this week may get quite heavy, laden as they are with family tragedy, psychopathy and heartbreak — ...

Gothic works tend to feature abandoned castles or estates, plots around inheritance, doomed love, and often include supernatural elements. Here, 20 the best gothic books to read this fall: The ...

Gothic lit and its moody sister, "dark academia", are ruling TikTok. From The Secret History to Frankenstein, here are eight goth-lit must-reads, selected by the novelist Freya Berry.

The Soviet-Afghan war comes up only once in RUSSIAN GOTHIC (Rare Bird Books, 122 pp., $25), a slim novel by the Belarus-born Aleksandr Skorobogatov that first appeared in 1991 and has just been ...

From this violent beginning, 37-year-old, Cleveland-born Author Frank Mlakar (rhymes with blocker) carves out a Balkan gothic tale. For Osip Princevich, life in America was no bowl of cherries; it ...