Reviews
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Horror Before Horror: Arthur Machen’s Nightmares
Worth concludes with similarly well-crafted analyses of two currents in Arthur Machen’s fiction that have contributed to his important place…
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From Text to Myth: Penny Dreadful and Adaptation
This article examines contamination as a form of adaptation in the Showtime/Sky television series Penny Dreadful.
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The Gothic, Violent Intervention of ‘Une Semaine de bonté’
In the year that ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ came out, as I have indicated, another novel featuring a murder…
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The Bloodied Compartment of ‘Murder on the Orient Express’
Agatha Christie’s ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ is in one sense a reinscription of Émile Zola’s naturalist masterpiece ‘La Bête…
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Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium Insights
Duke University Press has lovingly reproduced the cover art of albums and a few singles in full colour alongside John…
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‘Contemporary Gothic’, by Catherine Spooner
An enduring truism about the cultural phenomenon known as the Gothic is that it simply will not die.
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Festival Rock al Parque Opening Taken to the Extreme
The first day of Festival Rock al Parque came as a punch in your face full of extreme sounds and…
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Dark Tranquillity Memorable Performance at Festival Rock al Parque
Despite the unworthy contention caused by overall attendees, musicians and media press, Colombian festivals such as Festival Rock al Parque…
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The First Supernatural Vampire Films in North America
Between 1895 and 1915, the subject of vampirism also experienced great change, with the supernatural characters of folklore and popular…
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Gothic-Grotesque of ‘Haunted’: Joyce Carol Oates’ Tales
In literature, as in the visual arts, images of the body have come to assimilate many of the collective changes…
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Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fiction
Ghosts, ghost stories and the tropes of haunting and spectrality are recurrent topics in contemporary literature and criticism.
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Exploring the Gothic in Latin America’s ‘El Fantasma del Convento’
Fernando de Fuentes Carrau’s film emphasizes darkness and mystery. Accompanied by effective sound effects of lamenting off-screen voices and howling…
