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 ...

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And it’s those heavily kohl’d eyes, angst-ridden blanched pallor and blood red lips that still sets the dominant gothic aesthetic to this day – an aesthetic that, it turns out, is laborious ...

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With its gloomy atmosphere and aesthetics, goth is one of the most ... at the University of Westminster and expert in all things Gothic, to tell us about how the word travelled through time.