This autumn, BBC Two, BBC Four and the British Library are celebrating all things Gothic with a new season of programmes exploring the literature, architecture, music and artworks that have taken such ...

“Tranflated by WILLIAM MARSHAL, Gent,” fibbed the frontispiece. “From the Original ITALIAN of ONUPHRIO MURALTO, Canon of the Church of St NICHOLAS at OTRANTO.” Neither of these people existed, any ...

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Opening next month, the show takes in 250 years of the Gothic, pinpointing its beginning as Horace Walpole’s self-proclaimed 1764 ‘gothic novel’, The Castle of Otranto and charting the genre’s ...

Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery is not often the centre of national cultural attention. Yet this autumn it hosts The Nature of Gothic, an exhibition that would be at home in any major city.

Gothic literature was born 250 years ago with the publication of Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto. In that schlocky tale, the son of the aristocratic Manfred is killed by a falling helmet.

Opening next month, the show takes in 250 years of the Gothic, pinpointing its beginning as Horace Walpole’s self-proclaimed 1764 ‘gothic novel’, The Castle of Otranto and charting the genre’s ...