Strawberry Hill House, the marvellous former home of the collector Horace Walpole, will be displaying a recently rediscovered ...

Horace Walpole published the first gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto , set in a labyrinthine castle surrounded by woods.

In the second of two articles, William Aslet explains how the opulent interiors of Moor Park, Hertfordshire, were completed ...

The oil on copper miniature portrait, originally believed to be by Bronzino, is the subject of an exhibition at its former ...

Thomas Carlyle would have been impressed by Donald Trump. The author of On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History ...

Rooted in medieval architecture and later expanded into literature, fashion and art, it stands as a symbol of mystery and the ...

An exquisite miniature portrait by Italian painter Lavinia Fontana was serendipitously rediscovered after turning up at an ...

Serendipity refers to happy chances that feel magical and lead to unexpected opportunities. By adopting certain habits, we ...

He was the coach of the visiting Windham team playing Columbia in a rec league game at Horace Porter Elementary School. Eyewitnesses who were at the game said that the parent who was struck in the ...

In his self-published series of reprinted Gothic novels by authors such as Horace Walpole the elaborate jackets that he has designed neatly articulate the conservative process of reconstructing texts ...

The genre’s founding novel, Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764), laid down many of the themes to be found in subsequent Gothic tales. There is the antique setting, the ending of a familial ...