Step into a world of gothic mystery and Halloween fun at the Thomas Crane Public Library’s After Hours: Gothic Gala, a 21-and-older event scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Oct. 24 at the Main Library, 40 ...

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 Manfred, ...

This autumn, BBC Two, BBC Four and the British Library are celebrating all things Gothic with a new season of programmes exploring the literature, architecture, music and artworks that have taken such ...

Everybody knows a ghost story or has seen a film that's scared them witless, but how did this spooky genre first come about? The British Library has put on an exhibition which traces its history from ...