“According to Timothy Rideout, author of Gothic Precarity: Fear and Anxiety in Twenty-First-Century Fiction (2025), this is no coincidence: “[T]he Gothic resonates with the real-world terrors of the current global landscape,” he writes, and it reconfigures such terrors in the symbolic forms of ghosts, vampires, and unspeakable things that go bump in the night”
“Gothic Precarity deftly makes the case that the gothic genre in the 21st century most accurately reflects the pressing economic, environmental, and social threats of our time, as well as the sense of dread they engender in those of us who aren’t part of the one percent”