On April 4, 1942, the diarist Henry “Chips” Channon and a few of his friends paid a visit to Wells Cathedral—one of England’s early Gothic treasures—in the southwest county of Somerset.
A mix of late Gothic and early Renaissance architecture, Château de Chenonceau is a 16th-century castle that spans the Cher River. Water flows beneath the bridge part of the structure ...
The Gothic genre employs themes of degradation, horror, emotionalism over objectivity, and the supernatural to elicit wonder, suspense, and terror in audiences. From ...