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Netflix just added the movie “We Have Always Lived in the Castle,” a mystery thriller about two sisters living in seclusion whose world unravels when their cousin arrives.

Ever since its inception with Horace Walpole’s novel The Castle of Otranto (1764), a delirious mixture of violent death and familial conspiracy, gothic literature has been a restless cultural form, constantly mutating and assuming new guises but always exploring the darker side of life. Sometimes, its fashions are those of…

This striking short story collection, set in a spooky hotel in the Fens, offers a fierce interrogation of women’s roles in the folk horror world

Make every season spooky

In June 1948, readers of The New Yorker magazine were confronted by one of the most disturbing short stories of the 20th century. The Lottery, written by a young writer named Shirley Jackson opens with a description of a deceptively idyllic rural community.

Lovecraftian tales featuring creatures of the night

Shirley Jackson's most controversial shortie is behind Vault 11

The upcoming horror movie Horrorscope has changed its title to the much more generic Tarot, and genre fans aren't pleased.