National Novel Writing Month began in 1999 with just 21 participants. Since then it’s grown to more than 200,000, including two regular members of Houston Press’s Gothic Council, Sarah Fanning and ...

In Eden, Kentucky, the air is thick with dust. The dying coal town is the fictional setting of Alix E. Harrow's "Starling House," and the smog of fading power and bad luck is enough to suffocate its ...

Why are country houses so often the perfect settings for horror novels? Might it be that they are big, with lots of dusty rooms, isolated from their neighbours and with a long history of past owners?

It turns out that I was raised surrounded by Southern Gothic storytelling fodder and had no idea. Those of you raised in the South certainly were, too. Life was what it was. Our world was everything ...

The Gothic design style is a 2021 design and writing competition organized by artuminate. Based on the 19th century interpretation of medieval architecture, Gothic design style depicts the celebration ...

The latest adaptation of the silent film classic evokes anxieties at once eternal and contemporary, using one of horror’s ur-texts to dissect race, sex, and power. Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter in ...

Editor's Note: The following demo review opportunity came courtesy of Tribeca Games. This title and other worthy competitors are vying for awards in the first-ever games category at the long-running ...