In Jacobean England, ghosts were not a mere literary flourish or gothic entertainment; they were a cultural preoccupation with serious theological and political implications.

Before hell, before horns, before the whispers of forbidden knowledge and the flaming descent into Christian damnation, there was only light. The name "Lucifer" once belonged not to a demon, but to a planet—a celestial beacon that shimmered on the edge of Dawn...

Long before Edgar Allan Poe popularized the American Gothic with tales of catacombs and premature burials, and before H.P. Lovecraft peopled New England with unspeakable deities, the region already throbbed with spectral folklore...

In the fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, the asylum serves not merely as a physical setting or plot device, but as a threshold between the fragile construct of human sanity and the yawning abyss of the cosmic unknown.

Published in 1798, Brown’s Wieland; or, The Transformation is widely considered the first major American Gothic novel. Though separated by over two centuries, Wieland and The Witch share a haunting kinship.