With the rise of social media reading communities comes the rise of dark romance, a subgenre that remains controversial and problematic due to its depiction of messy, twisted, and often morally ...

The Marquis de Sade, however, an outsider if there ever was one, had quite contemporary reasons for proclaiming the Gothic romance to be simply the "modern novel." Ce genre ... devenait le fruit ...

Gothic novels have been scaring us for 250 years. The mid-18th Century - an era of dark, satanic mills at home and nightmarish social upheaval abroad - saw public taste shift from traditional ...

The Twilight Saga novels have Gothic conventions like romance and supernatural creatures. In Gothic literature, all these features and conventions can be used as symbols to suggest deeper ideas to ...