Tag: gothic

Drawn by the sinister reputation of Lorraine Castle, of the deaths which have occurred within its supposedly haunted walls and in particular inside the red room, accessed up

It was in 1859, when she was six years old, that Laura would first dream of Carmilla; it would be another thirteen years when as a young woman,

There are stories in town that the Graham farmstead out on Willow Road is haunted, most likely by the ghost of Miriam Graham who one day decided to

His workshop home to the beautiful and the grotesque, Hans van Arnim has been sent to the residence of the noted sculptor Professor Gregorious Wahl to examine his

The death of Carrie Reynolds has left a hole in lives of her family, her daughters Meagan and Jessica and her husband Charlie, but he is by far

Eighty novels in just shy of eighty years is a worthy milestone for any author, but Mary Elizabeth Braddon was more beyond that notable achievement, a former actor

The sound of pouring rain fills a dark, cavernous space, the smell of damp permeating the walls; while magnificent in its capacity, the remote Bly estate and the

It is traditional for the arrival at the safe place to be the end of the story, and for Rose and her four children, Jack, Jane, Billy and

Nobody loved a Gothic family saga so much as Virginia Andrews, the writer whose success has led to more novels being published under her name by ghost writers

The thunder rumbles and the rain rolls down the windows, and by torchlight Theodore explores the darkened chambers of the country house he shares with his siblings, pulling