The answer is C. Frankenstein. First up, you’ll need to wrap up warm. There aren’t many tropical beaches in gothic fiction. Expect wind, rain and thunderstorms and things that go bump in the night.

It turns out that I was raised surrounded by Southern Gothic storytelling fodder and had no idea. Those of you raised in the South certainly were, too. Life was what it was. Our world was everything ...

From isolated castles to wind-ravaged moors, the savage beauty of the UK countryside has inspired some of history’s most iconic works of gothic fiction. Writers like the Brontë sisters and Mary ...