Warning: This article discusses topics of violence, death, and sexual matters. Gothic books and short stories are an important part of literary history, and several are defining titles in the genre.

Halloween might be just around the corner, but the four judges of our gothic short story competition have already had all the frights they need. Inspired by the re-issue of four chilling Daphne du ...

The novel, whose lead character is a young girl obsessed by Gothic stories, contains direct references to The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Monk. Edgar Allan Poe’s collection of short stories is ...