Gothic

The Others, Alejandro Amenábar’s supernatural masterpiece, is classic enough in its stylings to appear as from out of time. What we have is a haunting, a particular set of arcane rules, conspiratorial outsiders, and things unseen in the…

The continent of Antarctica was only discovered two centuries ago, even if it had long been theorized. It’s a place shrouded in mystery with no human history and no permanent residents. It’s a land of superlatives: the coldest, the…

Mani Bazaar is a solo artist from the west of Ireland—via Manchester, UK—who creates what she describes as “ethereal goth-infused dream pop”. An apt descriptor, if her latest release EP. 3 is anything to go by. Released in April and…

This year sees a lot of anniversaries - forty years since Joy Division’s masterpiece, Unknown Pleasures, thirty years since The Stone Roses first record. It also marks four decades since a new sub-genre of music interrupted the airwaves.…

Very few albums in modern music are worthy of the title "masterpiece". Fewer yet earn cult status almost right away upon release. Underground artists, however, do sometimes come to the surface, leaving audiences with a glimpse into the…

Thirty years before Vincent Price made The Masque of the Red Death and over eighty years before Jennifer Kent made The Babadook, James Whale brought the Gothic mode of cinema out of a stuffy, rat-infested cellar and onto theatre screens.…

Working with porn stars and non-professional actors, reconstructing new edits of old classics and experimenting with modes of distribution, Ocean’s Eleven director Steven Soderbergh likes to push boundaries. He is the epitome of the ‘one…

Ireland has a rich tradition of Gothic art. From Dracula to The Portrait of Dorian Gray right up to Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Lenane, the notion of Ireland as a place steeped in mystery and suspense has been kept going for…

'I cannot again appear before the public in so unseemly a character as that of a writer of romances, without regretting the necessity that compels me to it. Did my profession furnish me with the means of subsistence, I should hold myself…

There's a spiky gothic charm about Naoise Roo. The Dublin native stalks similar shadows to those of Nick Cave, Neko Case et al, though she rises above soundalike status thanks to a voice that simultaneously manages to allay and excite.…