Ironically, by the time James Ware wrote 1864's The Female Detective, Gothic trappings lent literary weight; the once-dismissed genre had become a benchmark. (Those early detectives proliferated ...

The Library Suicides is part psychological thriller and dystopian gothic fiction, which deals with themes of literature, complex identities and bereavement. And all this is set against the ...

The literary scholar’s The Roma blends a history ... Your area of focus as an academic is on the gothic. What drew you to that? Are there connections between it and the subject of this book?