Category: Gothic

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  Queerness and Vampire Fiction – An Exploration

  Us humans; we really enjoy putting things into nice little boxes… Read more.

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  Theatre Review – The Croft

  It’s not often that I leave a theatre so baffled… Read more.

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  Corrupt and Monstrous Sensuality: Blood-Red on Women’s White Clothing in Vampire Novels

  Red wine, scarlet roses, crimson lipstick, blood stains. There’s so much that connects the colour red with the danger, passion… Read more.

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  Fairy Tales and the Power of Stories in ‘Mexican Gothic’

  What are the key differences between a fairy-tale and a Gothic novel, and how close are they to one another,… Read more.

• The Last of Us and the Fear of Fungal Contagion

  After playing The Last of Us (2013) and being stricken by a fungal infection recently, I visited a doctor who… Read more.

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  Unspoken Confessions in The Picture of Dorian Gray (Chapter One)

  Oscar Wilde’s clear yearning for queer confession and his subsequent self-censorship in the first chapter of The Picture of Dorian… Read more.

• The ‘Real’ Reason we play Zombie Games

  Zombies have plagued my life for a long time, a genre that really captured my teen heart and endured throughout… Read more.

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  From Gothic to Dark Academia: An Education in Malice Analytical Review

  Upon reading the fiction, An Education in Malice (Gibson, 2024), I was inspired to seek out the material that helped… Read more.

• Can’t I just stay in the closet? Homophobia in Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)

  Upon reading the analysis of The Vampire Chronicles in Queer Gothic (Haggerty, 2006), I wanted to deep-dive into the attitudes… Read more.

• A Queer Reading of Lockwood, Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)

  I am compelled to consider whether our narrator in Wuthering Heights, Mr Lockwood, may be a queer, potentially aromantic individual… Read more.