Gothic literature often contrasts different types of characters: victims and predators, good and evil. They are full of strange and often supernatural characters like ghosts, vampires and werewolves.

The literary scholar’s ‘The Roma’ (Harper, July) blends a history of Romani persecution and civil rights struggles with her ...

Gothic Literature gained popularity in the late 1700s with the publication of Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto. Since ...