Gothic Studies News Today

Grimmfest has announced the winners for their 14th edition of the film festival! Read the full list on Dread Central.

Exploring five monstrous archetypes – beast, witch, ghost, vampire and zombie – our season of horror films will be in cinemas across the UK, at BFI Southbank, BFI IMAX, on Blu-ray and on BFI Player.

Unhappy teenagers often find their way to science fiction, one way or another. It’s hardly surprising that a genre laden with metaphors of loss, loneliness and longing for connection should be attractive to young people struggling to find their place in a world that seems to resent their very existence. Few such troubled kids have ever conveyed their fears and desires as powerfully – or as significantly – as Mary Shelley. She wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus at the age of 1...