Singer Maggie Rose pays tribute to the late Donna Jean Godchaux, whose voice and stage presence influenced the Grateful Dead.

This Halloween, we revisit Rhidian Davis’s reckoning with the gothic’s many monstrous manifestations, from silent film to Hammer horror to Twilight. From our November 2013 issue.

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The most startling accounts come from those who claim to have seen full apparitions – a woman in 19th-century dress standing at the end of a hallway, a Civil War soldier sitting on a window ledge, or ...

The Chicago premiere of Terry Guest's “Oak” at Raven Theatre is a Southern Gothic ghost story that simultaneously tackles too many subjects and shies away from a crucial one soon ...

Blast these songs out your front door when the trick-or-treaters are going by and you’ll have the least popular house on the black — and plenty of candy left over on November 1. Robert Johnson, ...

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Slowly, steadily, a small but quite lively patchwork of horror-and-gothic-themed shopfronts and cafes and restaurants and ...

The eclectic collection of more than 7,600 vintage 16 mm classroom films represents an unsung genre that offered engaging new ...