Readings

This article examines three comic books, Silver Surfer, Omega Men and Promethea, as philosophy in themselves, and not merely as…

Critics have often sought to place Thomas Hardy’s fiction within a realist generic framework, with a significant emphasis on visual…

The Female Gothic is a subgenre and critical area of study that focusses on the trials, torments and anxieties of…

“Southern Gothic” is a term widely used in popular discourse to describe a particular body of literature, but which critics…

It is generally agreed that the gothic, understood narrowly as a narrative form given principal expression through the novel, had…

Horror is a genre that is found in many forms, from long novels to films, and from poetry to short…

This article seeks to explore the manner in which Jim Jarmusch’s recent independent production ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ (2013) reinterprets…

The Enlightenment, which produced the maxims and models of modern culture, also invented the Gothic.

The most critical trait of vampires is that they have to consume blood to keep their bodies functioning.

Vampires are in vogue: they have been for more than a century and the interest in vampire fiction in this…

William Shakespeare’s use of the mythological tradition of otherworldly appearances in his plays is anything but insubstantial.

Curses, whether laid down by tribal law or cast by vengeful sorcerers, are one of supernatural fiction’s most enduring subgenres.