Halloween might be just around the corner, but the four judges of our gothic short story competition have ... talent,” says Stylist’s contributing literary editor Francesca Brown.

There aren’t many tropical beaches in gothic fiction ... with a love story, supernatural beings, such as shapeshifters and vampires, and the theme of good v evil. For example, the novel The ...

Matthew Lewis scandalises the literary world ... Carter's collection of short stories is perhaps the most famous example of feminist Gothic. Her retelling of traditional children’s stories ...

The original short story Viy is based on came out during the emergence of the gothic literary movement, and this slow-burn tension is a perfect example of gothic use of dread in horror.