"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 ...

Please verify your email address. The Gothic genre employs themes of degradation, horror, emotionalism over objectivity, and the supernatural to elicit wonder ...

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

An exhibition detailing the craft behind the film-maker's work reveals him as one of the most distinctive creative minds of ...

From the infamous Amityville Horror House to the Villisca Axe Murder House, the US is home to some horrifying houses with ...

From California's Joan Didion to Maine's Stephen King, here are the most famous authors from every state.

Most of us have daydreamed about walking away with the top jackpot of £1m on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, hosted by Jeremy ...

Gothic Revival came into popularity at a time ... Supplemental data on median home age is from the 2022 American Community Survey of the U.S. Census Bureau.

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 ...

(Photo by Jerry L Mennenga / Flatwater Free Press) Two giant dogs made of fiberglass guard the entrance to Wakefield’s history museum, their faces painted in the stern likeness of the early 20th ...