DIY projects like fringed witch hats can add creative flair to ... for Halloween Without Overdoing It The post Western Gothic ...

a distinct aesthetic and cast of reoccurring villains have emerged. Dracula in his Gothic castle, the werewolf prowling under the moonlight, the occult creeping up in isolated villages, the witch ...

The Gothic aesthetic gained literary prominence in the 18th century with the emergence of Gothic fiction. Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764) is credited as the genre’s foundation ...