This op-ed was originally published for Page Turner Magazine in May 2026 It’s 2024, gated communities are under siege, armed guards patrol the high-walled gates keeping out the poor, foreign, sick, and starving. The wealth inequality has widened along with climate-fueled fires, water is scarce, the police are privatized and rarely come unless you are …
Strangely, as a Goth, this is my first time reading about Carmilla. I’m drawn to hercharacter, beauty, and infatuation with Laura. I found the first UK version of the film recommended on the list and watched the entire movie. It differed from the story in manyrespects. In the film, Carmilla doesn’t have a mother who …
The attraction to gothic stories for me has always been their ability to transport me back into a world long gone, but some traces persist—the trendy “trad” or traditional wife with her nods to the 1950s prim-and-proper housewife. But there is something sinister behind that smile and the glint of her smart appliances; there’s a …