Many people in England spend Christmas Eve eating a good roast pheasant and maybe some figgy pudding, but in 1764, Horace Walpole, son of the Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, published The Castle of...

The year Gothicism was born (when The Castle of Otranto was published in 1764) was the same year the major Gothic author, the one who popularized and revolutionized the genre, was born. Fate!We're...

Matthew "the monk" Lewis was the son of a diplomat and followed in his father's footsteps, but when he was stationed at The Hague (the third largest city in Holland), he was b-o-r-e-d out of his mi...

We don't know what it is about nineteen-year-olds and boredom-induced writing contests, but Shelley began working on Frankenstein as part of a bet that started when she, her husband, and three of t...

By day, Bram Stoker worked as a business manager for the Lyceum theatre in London, but by night? By night he wrote about the one and only Count Dracula. Though his BA was in mathematics and he spen...