Story Behind the Book Kate McIntyre’s gothic stories rise from isolated ranch house settings “There’s nobody within shouting distance,” she says.

The Pure Heart won the Times/Chicken House children’s fiction prize in 2018, and it’s not difficult to see why. It is a twisty, compulsive tale built around a gripping mystery with compelling ...

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill is a Gothic ghost story. It's set in an isolated house, surrounded by marshland, where amysterious woman casts a shadow over the nearby village and haunts a young man.

Step inside an abandoned Gothic Revival house in this cinematic exploration. With towering arches, intricate woodwork, and a ...

A Good House for Children follows two families, 40 years apart, who move there for the good of the kids. In 2017 painter Orla arrives with her baby daughter and small son Sam, who refuses to speak.

Start small with a Dark Fantasy House for survival - a feasible task that won't leave you with excess space. Opt for a spacious Gothic Mansion in creative mode for endless interior design ...

Learn about the contexts, conventions and key examples of Gothic literature in this guide for KS3 English students aged 11-14 from BBC Bitesize.

High Place is an English-style manor house perched above the old Mexican mining town of El Triunfo. As the novel opens in the 1950s, the silver mine is closed and the town is miserably impoverished.

Alix E. Harrow's Starling House depicts a dying, fictional coal town's horrors and dark past. Harrow joins a long tradition of authors writing Gothic fiction as a way to process the ills of society.

In Eden, Kentucky, the air is thick with dust. The dying coal town is the fictional setting of Alix E. Harrow’s “Starling House.” ...