Showtime's criminally underrated gothic horror soap opera, Penny Dreadful, returns for it's third season this Sunday, May 1 – and what better way to predict what will happen this season than with your very own set of Penny Dreadful tarot cards? Featuring beautifully illustrated works overlaid on a rich purple background, these cards subtly portray…
Certain shows’ protagonists are not always the most honest, upstanding “heroes” that the good-guy-always-wins Hollywood has trained us to expect them to be. Some shows feature down right criminals and monsters and somehow build a story around them that causes the viewer to sympathize with, and even root for, the antihero. Not all of these…
I’ve been speaking about the Gothic as a literary and media genre online and at conventions since the first Gothic novel of my Strangely Beautiful series was published in 2009, albeit during a bit of a lull in the oft-beleaguered genre’s cycles of waxing and waning popularity. I’ve been a diehard fan of the genre…
