Gothic lit and its moody sister, "dark academia", are ruling TikTok. From The Secret History to Frankenstein, here are eight goth-lit must-reads, selected by the novelist Freya Berry.

Gothic novels have been scaring us for 250 years. The mid-18th Century - an era of dark, satanic mills at home and nightmarish social upheaval abroad - saw public taste shift from traditional ...

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour performance of Willow incorporates lots of gothic imagery. The album Reputation (2017) was her response, asserting her power as an artist revelling in monstrous femininity.