The author of “If We Were Villains” recommends novels that will make you shiver with delight one moment and recoil in horror ...

Dracula in his Gothic castle, the werewolf prowling under the moonlight, the occult creeping up in isolated villages, the witch in her hut, the living scarecrow, and the zombie plague are all ...

There aren’t many tropical beaches in gothic fiction. Expect wind ... appeal to reader’s instinctive fear of the dark - and under the cover of darkness things often aren’t quite as they ...