In literature, "gothic" fantasy refers to stories with supernatural elements characterized by dark, dour, or macabre tones and ideas, befitting of the gloomy title.

20 Best Gothic Novels to Read on a Gloomy Autumn Night. ... such novels commonly used such settings as castles or monasteries equipped with subterranean passages, dark battlements, ...

The film takes place almost entirely during pouring rain, dark nights and overcast days. This gloomy setting — coupled with overwhelmingly sparse lighting — makes the film feel oppressively ...

One of the great pleasures of Gothic fiction lies in its insistence that the past (to quote Faulkner) isn’t dead, it isn’t even past. In a Gothic novel, dark histories linger in gloomy castles ...

NYC-based twosome Mass Gothic have lifted the lid on "Dark Window", a gloomy and glistening piece of obsidian pop. The track follows 2016's self-titled debut LP and their Sup Goth short-player, and it ...

Von Horn's "dark and scorching" film "draws a grim true story from the Danish capital's past and spins it halfway to a Grimm one", said Robbie Collin in The Telegraph.The Swedish director records ...

The Castle of Otranto is considered the first supernatural English novel and also the first gothic novel. It describes itself as a translation of an Italian story from the Middle Ages about ...