Born in 1824 to creative parents, Wilkie Collins had the benefit of a varied education. This included continental travel to ...

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Hartford-based Mark Twain House and Museum was recongnized in a list ...

The Victorian Gothic style, popularized by iconic figures like Morticia Addams or the tragic heroines of literature, takes a contemporary turn here thanks to Lily-Rose. With her subtly shaded eyes ...

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Hartford-based Mark Twain House and Museum was recongnized in a list from Condé Nast Traveler.

Chihaya’s version of bibliophobia grew out of the fear of one book in particular—the monograph that her career demanded and ...

rom a literary identity thriller to the secret lives of Victorian-era women detectives, here are eight new books for your ...

The latest in a line of Victoriana ‘queer’ stories leaves Stuart Kelly wondering if it is anything more than an imaginative re-fleshing of a thesis ...

Everyone has to start somewhere, and for The Sims, that somewhere was a Windows PC in your parent's attic. Its humble ...

There were Victorian collars paired with skirt suits and cascading ruffles juxtaposed with embellished masks, some that looked like those worn by Lucha Libre wrestlers and others that were like ...

Fife-based musician James Yorkston isn’t the first singer-songwriter to turn to long-form fiction. Leonard Cohen and Gil Scott-Heron ...

But the proprietor's genius idea was simply to add the words 'THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP – IMMORTALIZED BY CHARLES DICKENS' in ornate gothic ... Late Victorian newspapers dubbed literary tourists ...

One feature that separates Gothic horror from the rest is its sensitivity to aesthetics, haunting stories of love and death ...