Jeremy Dauber’s “American Scary” traces the uncanny origins of the spookiest stories told in our young nation.

The Gothic is always with us. Instead of talking about revivals of this style, we would be better off thinking in terms of the remorseless tread of the undead. Only someone who never sleeps could ...

The Castle of Otranto is considered the first supernatural English novel and also the first gothic novel. It describes itself as a translation of an Italian story from the Middle Ages about ...

"American Gothic" is a famous piece of artwork by Iowa-born Grant Wood. The painting by Wood depicts a man and a woman standing in front of a house. The man, a farmer, wears overalls, with a ...

The waiting is almost over: the Cure have formally announced their first full-length release in 16 years. The gothic rock icons’ long-promised, and much-anticipated Songs of a Lost World is set to be ...

People take those classics, mix ’n’ match ’em and then slowly (or quickly) turn them into definitive American dishes. And then we oftentimes send the reformulated food back out into the ...