An Interview with New York Times Bestselling Author Gail Carriger
October 2009 saw the publication of Soulless, the first of The Parasol Protectorate Books and Gail Carriger’s debut novel. It was fresh, witty, and comic. It opened up a world populated with elegant...
View ArticleCatherine Spooner interviewed by Neil McRobert
Dr Catherine Spooner is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Lancaster. Specialising in Victorian and contemporary literature she has a specific interest in the Gothic, particularly its...
View ArticlePop-Goth and Post Goth: Two Readings of Two Post-Gothic Fashions
It is doubtless that today’s Gothic fashion sells and sells in a particularly Gothic fashion. The Pop-Gothic culture reflected in the clothes – where the cute is made morbid and the morbid made cute,...
View ArticleCALL FOR PAPERS: Fashion and Horror Collection
This is a call for proposals for chapters to comprise a potential new publication, which has had strong interest from Bloomsbury. Editors of this volume are Dr. Julia Petrov, Alberta College of Art and...
View ArticleDances of the dead: the victims’ ball, Gothic fashion and entertainment of...
Parisian society after the Terror The 27th of July 1794, a.k.a. 9 Thermidor: Maximilien de Robespierre is arrested. The blade of the guillotine falling on his neck symbolises the end of the Terror in...
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