The Library has partnered with BBC Two and BBC Four to celebrate all things Gothic this autumn with a new season of programs exploring the literature, architecture, music and artworks that have taken such a prominent place in British culture.
A host of famous literary faces will look back on Frankenstein's creation in A Dark and Stormy Night: When Horror Was Born, while in The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour Andrew Graham-Dixon looks back at how Victorian Britain turned to the past for inspiration to create some of Britain's most famous artworks and buildings. In God's own Architects: The First Gothic Age, Dr Janina Ramirez looks at Perpendicular Gothic, Britain's first cultural style and Dan Cruickshank looks back at Gothic architecture's most influential family in A Gothic Dynasty: A Victorian Tale of Triumph and Tragedy.
A wide range of literary, film and music events will accompany the exhibition, with speakers including writers Susan Hill, Sarah Waters, Audrey Niffenegger and Kate Mosse, actor Reece Shearsmith, comedian Stewart Lee and musician Brian May.
Poster for The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1959. On loan from the BFI National Archive
Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination runs from 3 October 2014 to 20 January 2015
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