I have found fuller information on this week’s Book at Bedtime on the BBC Radio 4 website; details follow (with the added advantage of allowing me to post another picture of David Tennant!) David Tennant returns with another selection of chilling Vampire stories. Last year the first series concentrated on Victorian Vampire output, but in these five tales we enter the 20th Century and are introduced to stories with a little twist from the UK and the USA: Tuesday: The Girl With the Hungry Eyes – written by Fritz Lieber This 1949 story has exerted its grip on many an imagi

David Tennant reads The Lady of the House of Love by Angela Carter for BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime this week.  Monday-Friday at 10.45pm.

Don't miss Alison Milbank writing about the double - 'Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature' - in today's Guardian online.

The figure of a diva has such wonderfully Gothic potential. They are unpredictable, larger than life creatures, at the same time alluring and threatening, sometimes grotesque, and occasionally aspiring to immortality.

The website for the Studies in Gothic Fiction First Annual Conference has recently gone live.  For a link to the website, click here.    The conference will take place on 16-17 March 2012 in San Diego, California, and promises to be a most stimulating event.  For further details, consult the website.

This two-day interdisciplinary, cross-period conference will explore humanity’s perennial fascination with the monstrous.

proving once more that truth can indeed be stranger than fiction, there's an octopus like poltergeist apparently assaulting the virtue of Doris Birch

A new trailer has been released for The Woman in Black...

A small 'magazine' produced by a 14 year-old Charlotte Bronte is to be sold at Sotheby's next month, estimated to fetch $315,000 to $475,000.

Directed by Eric Anthony Pereira, the film is based on a true story about the rape and murder of teenage girls in a small town.