Loyalty on Trial
This issue centers on the word loyalty—a concept that unfolds into questions of choice, demand, duty, and betrayal. Gothic loyalty may be tender or terrifying, inherited or invented, sacred or broken. In everyday life we concede that loyalty is the bare minimum: we expect our friends not to betray us. Yet the universe grows bleak […]
Our Daily Gothic
Cadavers, vampires, states of emotional excitement precipitating crime, supernatural phenomena. Don’t they just bring a distinct kind of relief? Wouldn’t the world be a pleasant place, even a joyful one, if the only challenge standing in the way of our future was an otherworldly apparition? A phantom, or even a pack of phantoms, instead of […]