Neil Bowen, Head of English at Wells Cathedral School, England, has recently set up a website called peripeteia, an online project designed to facilitate debate and the exchange of ideas for A-level students of English literature.   Though only recently established, membership of peripeteia is now around 200, with students and academics from Australia, Iran, Pakistan, Spain, the USA and all parts of the UK participating in the online discussions. Given the ever-increasing Gothic contents of literature courses at high-school level--the subject of an earlier blog on this website-- it is f

Rupert Sanders' Snow White and the Huntsman, starring Kristen Stewart as Snow White and Charlize Theron as the evil Queen, has beaten Tarsem Singh's Mirror, Mirror...

There's quite a few books of interest recently published or forthcoming, so look out for Part 2 coming soon

Daniel Radcliffe, star of the upcoming film, has launched a ghost story competition to find the scariest story in the UK

We're delighted to announce that Dr Sue Chaplin of Leeds Metropolitan University, author of several influential books and articles on Gothic and Romantic-era writing, will be presenting a paper entitled "Blood Bonds and Brand Loyalties: Poppy Z Brite's Lost Souls and Alan Ball's True Blood" at the University of Stirling on Wednesday 16th November, 2011, in Pathfoot D2, at 4:00 pm.  All interested parties are welcome to attend.

... in the news recently is Miss Havisham, following the release early this month of the first pictures of Helena Bonham Carter in the role.

Director Stuart Beattie will shortly begin the filming of I, Frankenstein, a retelling of Shelley's narrative in which the creature, here named Adam, finds himself in an apocalyptic, urban world of  warfare and strife.  The film will be shot in Melbourne, Australia, and will star Aaron Eckhart.  Full the full story, click here.

Director Nick Murphy's The Awakening, written by Stephen Volk and starring Rebecca Hall, Dominic West and Imedla Staunton, was released on November 11, and the reviews, so far, aren't bad at all.

The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change.

Promos for the film adaptation of Susan Hill's The Woman in Black are certainly going into overdrive. We're being drip fed images with the latest, below, hitting all the cliches.