Since the early days of gothic writing in Europe, journeying has been at the heart of the genre. Ann Radcliffe’s heroines were transported to faraway castles and abbeys, while Melmoth wandered the earth an outcast and Victor Frankenstein travelled to the Arctic […]
The long nineteenth century was a period marked by industrial revolution, scattered religious beliefs and technological advancements. The Gothic tradition recorded these significant changes through a language of monstrosity, excess, and horror as the Industrial Revolution gained momentum, coal and steam power […]
The Horror Studies Research Group at Northumbria University invites researchers working in the multidisciplinary field of “Horror Studies” to submit abstracts about their research for the 2026 edition of the major, in-person, annual conference, Horror Studies Now, taking place on 28-29 May […]
In his introduction to John C. Tibbetts’s The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub (2016)—the only academic, book-length study of Straub’s fiction currently in print—Gary K. Wolfe argues that “[p]erhaps more than any author of his generation—Stephen King included—Straub extended the literary possibilities of horror […]
In 2026, Romancing the Gothic’s annual conference will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of Ann Radcliffe’s final, posthumous, publications. An early Gothic writer, Radcliffe was known to some as the ‘Great Enchantress’, to others as the ‘Shakespeare of Romance writers’. She was […]
July 28-30, 2026. University of Hull, Hull, UK.Abstract deadline: January 30, 2026. Once speculative, artificial intelligence now haunts contemporary society, with public discourse around its application and scope ranging from the utopian to the apocalyptic. The Gothic’s fascination with doubles, simulacra, uncanny […]
Stephen King is one of America’s most prolific authors, with 65 novels, 12 collections, and numerous other writings from non-fiction to screen plays; he is master of the short story, the horror novel, and the epic fantasy. While literary critics have debated […]
Mediterranean Antiquity in the Work of H. P. LovecraftApril 10-11, 2026Virtual, via Zoom Given the findings of the Pharos Project and other anti-racist scholarly endeavors, it is perhaps not surprising that H. P. Lovecraft, a man as famous for his white supremacy […]
With the recent and highly acclaimed AMC adaptation of Interview with the Vampire and AMC’s broader acquisition of Anne Rice’s literary corpus, The Vampire Chronicles have found renewed cultural relevance. As Season 3 enters production, we invite reexaminations of the legacy and transformation of Rice’s vampiric […]
Deadline for Submissions is September 30, 2025 Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) March 5-8, 2026, Pittsburgh, PA Gothic literature, art, and film have long trafficked in the uncanny, the monstrous, and the psychologically fractured—motifs that unsettle boundaries between self and other, life […]