Female beauty in the 19th century, as depicted in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and more recently by Emma Stone’s Bella Baxter in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, is completely at ...

It’s especially the ensemble numbers that are sheer staggering feats of imagination, offering insane levels of detail to bring Victorian London ... a good life in a dark and devious world.

In 18th-century gothic, music was a light melodic release from dramatic scares. But with the arrival of melodrama in the 19th ...

The novel features the supernatural, with a dark secret ... to the music of Victorian melodrama , but what I wanted to know was when melodrama acquired its distinctive gothic sounds.

In 1764, Horace Walpole published the first gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto, set in a labyrinthine castle surrounded by woods. The novel features the supernatural, with a dark secret from ... is ...

After several years of living in their 1906 Victorian townhome in San Francisco ... facing the building’s historic bay window. A slat wall in dark walnut adds visual contrast while still ...

Sam Abdulrahim, known as "The Punisher", has been gunned down at an apartment complex car park in Preston. The ex-Mongols bikie with links to the underworld has had several previous attempts on ...

Queen Victoria married Prince Albert from Germany. The queen's reign is known as the Victorian age. Nearly 200 years ago, Britain had a queen called Victoria. She was tiny – less than a metre ...