4+ day, 17+ hour ago  (335+ words) At a moment when Gothic stories continue to captivate audiences across film, television and literature " including recent adaptations of'Wuthering Heights and Frankenstein" Wordsworth Grasmere presents a major new exhibition exploring the origins of the Gothic imagination. Opening on 7 July, the…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago  (238+ words) The Gothic is a genre with recognizable tropes: witches and vampires, haunted houses and cobwebby tombs. It's eerie, it's morbid, it's campy and over the top. When I was writing my novel Immersions, based on the fairy tale "Bluebeard," I…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago  (185+ words) Glyph by Ali Smith. Pantheon, 2026. 288 pages. Buy on Bookshop. org SCOTTISH NOVELIST Ali Smith has been writing prizewinning novels concerned with art, narrative, ghosts, and climate change for 25 years. Best known for her Seasonal Quartet (201620), begun in the aftermath of…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (267+ words) For readers unfamiliar with the term creepypasta, allow me to offer an example: THERE IS A WINDOW IN YOUR BEDROOM THAT ONLY APPEARS WHEN YOU'RE ASLEEP. DON'T TRY TO OPEN IT. Creepypasta is a genre of horror fiction native to…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (224+ words) Conan Gray Shines on Wishbone World Tour Hey! What's Gonna Happen To My School? Stop Playing in Manon's Face An Interview with Aman Asad You're never getting 2016 or past time back NJCU Hosts "146 Names: How We Remember The Triangle Fire…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (496+ words) The Irish Times The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories by Brian J Showers: Meet Dublin's restless dead A confidently imaginative blend of fact and fiction Twenty-six years ago, I had a low-key obsession with Janet Cardiff's The Missing Voice…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (406+ words) Wendy Webb, known to her fans as the "Queen of Northern Gothic," spins ghostly tales inspired by Lake Superior and Bayfield. "Most authors start with a character or they start with a storyline. But I always start with the place,…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (274+ words) NPR Illinois - On Air Now Playing NPR Illinois | 91. 9 UIS - On Air Now Playing NPR Illinois Classic | 91. 9 HD2 - On Air Now Playing The X from NPR Illinois | 91. 9 HD3 Haunted school adventure set in central Illinois from the mind of Mark Russell Local author…...