If anything, young Edith Cushing (Wasikowska) and her romance with Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston) is one of great tragedy.

And Nosferatu remains a repulsive critical darling. And evidently, designers are on the same wavelength: Gothic romance is the dominant mood from Dior to Valentino and Jean Paul Gaultier.

No film personified this better than Hitchcock’s 1940 adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s classic gothic romance novel Rebecca, which became the first and only one of his films to take home the ...

Gothic literature is a treasure hoard of great themes and story beats, and these video games likely took inspiration from well-known Gothic tales.

Emily Bronte transports Gothic to the wild and dangerous Yorkshire moors. The classic romantic novel has become synonymous with the idea of the Female Gothic: where women are trapped in a domestic ...

The GCDS Fall 2025 collection presented by designer Giuliano Calza brings together gothic romance and modern pop culture.

Her Gothic poetry collection, “Decayed Lace and Other Sorrows,” went into print Feb. 19. A reprint of Book 1 of her acclaimed ...

I am my roots. The hard thing for me is to make a movie as if I’m not Mexican, because I am. … I have an affinity with melodrama of the gothic romance quality because it’s a little bit of a rot.