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Food was tied into multiple Halloween traditions that had love trouble at their core.
Britney Spears’ memoir illustrates once again the potential lifelong damage that can be caused by being a child star.
There are so many pointless references in this show that a lot of the meaning gets lost.
These five works of Welsh gothic literature will not only help you explore Wales through the macabre but are likely to give you a good scare too.
Horror films incorporate varied musical influences, but there are some things many scary soundtracks have in common.
Witchcraft is an enduring source of fascination but also prone to popular misconceptions.
The curators of this new Bishop Auckland museum have plundered a wide range of other backroom collections.
Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail is a sparse but searing novel that shows how the horrors of the past continue to shape Palestinian life today
A Gothic audio expert gives her recommendations of unsettlling podcasts and radio dramas.
Fame for artists has become less about the individual and more about their place with the large commercial art world ecosystem.
Life on Our Planet has some important messages about the nature of evolution, and what the future may hold for us.
The Playboy bunny represents feminine sexuality in its most playful and heightened form.
Goth has always been about mixing things up and adapting what you find to fit your own aesthetic.
It is how the detectives respond to superstition which cements the connections between the Conan Doyle and Christie stories
Retaining a statue or monument takes very little work – explaining it is a mammoth and contested task.
The portraits hold up a mirror to a society that has underappreciated the Windrush generation for far too long.
As Hollywood continues to reckon with its past, Vivien Leigh’s story is a reminder of the challenges faced by women, even the most successful ones.
The book shares secrets – Mantel’s own alongside those of the writers, historical figures and places she describes.
From dubious guests of honour from oppressive states to allowing far-right publishers to show, Frankfurt Book Fair’s political stances have been all over the place.
Julia offers contemporary readers new ways of thinking about Orwell’s novel.
Set in the not-so-distant future, Foe poses questions about humanity and what it means to be human in the face of environmental collapse.
From haunted houses to villainous vampires, these are the spooky reads our experts just can’t forget.
In Redux, Waters goes from the extreme of understatement in his earlier work to the extreme of overstatement and overwriting
These films also chart the development of the director’s distinctive, very personal style.