French gothic fantasy movie deserves many more fans than it has thanks to its approach that mixes horror with a martial arts ...

Jacob Elordi is being split open and sewn back together again for Guillermo Del Toro’s buzzy "Frankenstein" adaptation.

The poem reveals the mind-numbing conditions and physically exhausting jobs that were relentlessly inflicted on prisoners in ...

The literary scholar’s The Roma blends a history ... Your area of focus as an academic is on the gothic. What drew you to that? Are there connections between it and the subject of this book?

Helmut Sondheimer. By quantum confinement, I refer to the phenomenon where the energy of a quantum particle—like an electron—increases significantly when its motion is restricted in space.

MINNEAPOLIS — Prison reformers want Minnesota to end its use of solitary confinement and improve conditions for inmates separated from the rest of the prison population. The commissioner ...

Recognizable for its pointed arches and rib vaults, Gothic architecture was Europe’s primary building style for cathedrals from the late 12th to the 16th century. It evolved from its heavier ...

Gothic horror is a literary subgenre heavily tied back to gothic literature ... The genre is also known for its use of isolation and confinement, showing the characters’ physical and mental isolation, ...

An incarcerated Black Lives Matter protester is staging hunger strikes to draw attention to his prolonged solitary confinement. A Black Lives Matter protestor incarcerated in Oregon has spent over ...

And then came the rebuke. Dubbed "Southern Gothic," the literary genre was an answer to this idea of the South, revealing the ugly underbelly of racism and White supremacy through tales of murder ...

University of Sheffield-led researchers have launched a new project to help readers fall back in love with the works of Ann Radcliffe - a pioneer of Gothic literature Radcliffe - whose writing ...

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