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You can find these sorts of things in a spooky story genre called Gothic. Jeffrey Weinstock loves a good spooky story. He is also a member of Central Michigan University’s English faculty and ...

The Gothic Revival was a conscious movement that began in England to revive medieval Gothic forms, from the second half of the 18th century and throughout the 19th century. The 18th century examples ...

For centuries, British country houses, long considered the epitome of refinement and luxury, have also proved a cornerstone of Gothic fiction. With their many empty corridors, shut-up rooms and ...

With its culturally and historically rich context, the city of Cologne, also called Köln by its locals, is considered one of the most important centers in West Germany. Nestled on the banks of ...

Melanie, a 47-year-old Harris supporter who asked that her last name not be used out of fear of retaliation over her ...

He told his wife, Deb, they should split up to cover more ground before the customers were inevitably asked to leave the ...

The story originally appeared in Florida Trend Magazine. Big Cypress National Preserve sits smack-dab between Miami and Naples, its 727,000-plus acres of freshwater wetlands adjacent to Everglades ...

The Gothic is always with us. Instead of talking about revivals of this style, we would be better off thinking in terms of the remorseless tread of the undead. Only someone who never sleeps could ...

But Bayona started his film career in an entirely different genre with 2007’s The Orphanage (El orfanato in Spanish), a haunting Gothic-style ghost story set in – you guessed it – an ...