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The Gothic Cabinet by CJ Cooke

C.J. Cooke

The Gothic Cabinet by CJ Cooke is about dark folklore, haunted families, and unforgettable women.

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How to Play in the Dark

The Starry Night (1889) by Vincent Van Gogh. My photo, taken at MoMA, NYC, Feb 2024

Creativity has always worked best within constraints, despite appearing not to. It loves the dark. And I know I sound like a gothic novelist w...

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Bats as Librarians, Books as Bone: Gothic Fiction and the Library as Crypt

Last month I went to Portugal explicitly for one reason: to visit not one, but two bat-infested libraries.

Jump on a train from Lisbon for two hours north to the university city of Coimbra, where you’ll reach Biblioteca Joanina, which was...

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What Cannot Be Named: Gothic Fiction and the Language That Fails Us

Photo of books at Chatham Library, Feb 2026

We know things, he said, only through our five senses or our religious intuitions; wherefore it is quite impossible to refer to any object or spectacle which cannot be clearly depicted by t...

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Gothic Time and the Persistence of Trauma

Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

The relationship between trauma and time has always fascinated me as much as it has sickened me. If you’ve ever had to recover from anything, whether a broken leg, surgery, or a nervous breakdown (h...

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Women Who Won't Stay Dead

Ian Howard: Isobel Gowdie Portrait (after Pisanello)

Gothic fiction isn’t about death. At least, not the way we usually think it is.

This is the first thing to understand about it, and the thing most people get wrong. The genre look...

2 months ago
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    Award-winning, bestselling novelist and academic published in 23 languages. Writing here about history, folklore, feminism, gothic storytelling.

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