By M.L. Rio M.L. Rio is the best-selling author of “If We Were Villains” and “Graveyard Shift ... might seem counterintuitive, but the Gothic genre has always offered a space to examine ...

However, looming over the town are the ruins of Whitby Abbey; a relic of the dissolution of the monasteries with its crumbling graveyard ... as a pivotal setting for her 1817 Gothic parody ...