How to spot a villain (according to Shirley Jackson)

The real-life horror of Shirley Jackson's fiction

'its evil face alert, bright eyes watching her' | Shirley Jackson's 'The Daemon Lover'

Edgar Allan Poe and the horror of the mind

'Quoth the Raven "Nevermore."' | Tales by Candlelight

The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

Murder or Menstruation? The rewriting of Lizzie Borden

"Lizzie Borden with an axe" | Tales by Candlelight

Ursula Le Guin and the Horror of Utopia

What can Frankenstein teach us about prejudice?

'the dæmon at the casement' | Tales by Candlelight, Frankenstein Edition

'I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open' | Tales by Candlelight, Frankenstein Edition

How Oscar Wilde Sparked a Revolution | The Downfall of Decadence

Virginia Woolf's Queer Masterpiece

How Shirley Jackson exposed the horror of home life

'I'll bury him in the cellar' | Gothic Tales by Candlelight

'something dangerously out of control' | Gothic Tales by Candlelight

'A sudden unalterable terror took hold' | Gothic Tales by Candlelight

The Gothic re-writing of Princess Diana

In Defence of Angela Carter

'the price of flesh is love' | Gothic Tales by Candlelight

'the Devil is as real as you or I' | Gothic Tales by Candlelight

'this hole is filled with blood' | Gothic Tales by Candlelight

'The Witch' | Shirley Jackson’s Hidden Masterpiece

What Scary Games Owe to Gothic Literature

Romeo and Juliet were doomed from the get-go

The Roald Dahl Edits are fine, actually.

What Happened to this Quintessential GOTHIC Author? 🧐

How Gothic Literature Died

How this Gothic writer mysteriously disappeared

Why we love scaring ourselves

How Did John Keats Die?

How Shakespeare Influences Politics Today

'This Living Hand' | A close reading of Keats

Poetic Evolution | A close look at 3 sonnets

How 'The Yellow Wallpaper' Changed Women's Medicine

How People Faked Their Personalities 200 Years Ago

How Shakespeare Fooled the Censors

Why people thought tuberculosis was hot

A short biography of John Keats