Edward Bulwer Lytton is becoming increasingly known within Gothic circles, even though he is still an unjustifiably neglected writer and little known apart from that notorious writing competition ...

I have been in email correspondence with an author, who wants to know if I think vampires are real. There is never an easy answer.  What does surprise me though is the number of people who ask me that question.  It is probably more to do with me than them. Last year, while I was preparing to give a paper at the annual Gothic conference in Mexico City, my massage therapist warned me about a vampire she had encountered there.  She was quite sure that he would make a bee-line for me but he must have assiduously avoided me. I was not disappointed. The nearest one should be able to get t

There has been a Frankenstein furore lately. On the on-line BBC News Magazine, appears an article by Thomas Geoghegan, “Frankenstein: 10 possible meanings”. One could add noughts to that....

Has anyone had any recent sightings of bleeding nuns? I am collecting a few for a “Bloodwork” conference and am hunting through The Demon of Sicily, son of The Monk. I have also been reading Patrick O’ Malley’s...