Lightning flashes across the sky, illuminating a castle. A ghost calls out the name of a lover who once spurned them. A young woman tries to undo a curse that has plagued her family for centuries. You ...

Gothic was a unique RPG when it first launched in 2001. A lot has changed since then, and what once was fresh can now feel stale, or that’s what I’m thinking after playing through the Gothic 1 Remake ...

The entire bottom half of the poster of Pablo Larraín's Spencer is swallowed by the enormous, billowing skirt of a white dress. It isn’t a wedding dress, but it suggests a wedding dress. It looks ...

Gothic fantasy is a particular fantasy subgenre that features some great hidden gems, very much worth watching despite their relative obscurity. In literature, "gothic" fantasy refers to stories with ...

Grant Wood’s American Gothic (1930) is a painting that needs no introduction. It’s a deceptively simple work of art—a seemingly straightforward portrait of an old farmer and his daughter, pictured in ...

Gothic horror has roots in literary works that existed long before cinema was created. Pioneered by Horace Walpole with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, it is the daddy of all horror. Like its ...

The famous painting by Grant Wood shows a farmer holding a pitchfork and a woman standing next to him. The earlier sketch is ...

On June 10, 1991, a young, scruffy Kurt Cobain was loading his gear into the then-abandoned Gothic Theatre. Later that night, Cobain, alongside Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, would ignite the stage ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally circa 2010. If he was forced to pick a favorite ...

Two hours is a short time and an eternity: to use two hours of public time is a fine art.' Barbara Bergin's new play at the ...

Tania Yager is the founder and lead coordinator of The Wild Hunt of Vista and the Dark X-mas Market, an annual celebration of Christmas and winter holiday traditions rooted in European folklore, ...