Editor's Note: The below contains spoilers for Season 2 Episode 5 of House of the Dragon. Gothic literature stems from Romanticism, emphasizing the beauty of nature, extreme emotion, and the macabre ...

Hidden in the architecture of some of the world’s most famous buildings is a cultural exchange between Europe and the Middle East. Architectural historian Diana Darke and other experts have noted that ...

“Spooky Season” makes readers hungry for horror — a genre with literary roots in Gothic fiction. In that case, October is a time to highlight women’s writing — as the Gothic is fundamentally a women’s ...

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 ...