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Events : 2026 Online Reading Workshops – The Gothic

Take a walk on the wild side with our new reading course looking at horror, mystery and the darker side of the human condition. We’re taking on some giants of the Gothic to explore literature’s supernatural forces, from the terrible monster of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to the wild and windy moors of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. Many of your favourite women writers wrote Gothic novels so now is the time to dig a little deeper into the underbelly of nineteenth-century literature.

other : Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein: The Father, the Son and the Spirit of Hope

As the long winter evenings continue, here is a ghost story to get you through these cold and bleak January nights. Mary Shelley’s genre-defining Frankenstein is a fitting tale for this time of year. Shelley strands her protagonist, the scientist Victor Frankenstein, in a bleak, icy landscape, and sets his creation - a man built from the body parts of dead bodies - on his trail. But alongside this ‘monster’, Victor is haunted by memories. He remembers his
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news : Your Gothic Autumn Online

As the leaves turn brown and the nights draw in, experience a Gothic Autumn this season with a series of haunting literary events. From the mass hysteria of the witch trials to the chilling, misty moors and the shadowy corners of the Victorian home, delve into the supernatural works of Elizabeth Gaskell and other Gothic women writers. And the best bit is, it's all online from the comfort of your own home. Autumn Event Highlights Here are the top online Gothic
Inner page of an old book with the words 'The Grey woman' by Mrs Gaskell

blog : The Grey Woman

The Grey Woman is a short story by Elizabeth Gaskell in the Tales of Mystery and the Macabre collection. It was first published in January 1861 in volume IV of Charles Dickens’ All the Year Round. This is an edited version of a blog by Diane Duffy for the Gaskell Society's This Month in Writing series and you can read the full version Here Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Grey Woman is, out of all her short stories, one of