The Female Gothic novel achieved such popularity among bourgeois women in the 18th and 19th centuries ... The figure of the vampire expertly summons a labyrinth of metaphor, including this ...

and creepy Venetian masks brought the goth factor, and a pageant of paniers, bell sleeves, and high collars nodded to the past (and Interview With a Vampire movie set). It was, as all Michele's ...

But did you know that the Gothic vampire tale drew inspiration from a Batman movie? It’s ok if you didn’t know, because the director himself didn’t realize it himself until not too long ago.

It plays on the period’s repression of women and simultaneously the vampire genre’s inherent eroticism to create a psychosexual gothic fantasy. Nosferatu opens with the weeps of a tormented ...