Patricia Leslie

This article is the next in a series on the impact of artificial intelligence on literature and reading.

Part 1 of my year of Gothic Horror features Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe.

Exploring the origins ofGothic Horror fiction: horrified fascination, fear, the macabre and the supernatural.

Best fantasy novel series of all time. Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. The Crystal Cave. The Belgariad. Tolkien. The Wanderer series.

I read Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck as a teenager. Connected as it was to high school study, I liked it well enough, but coming to...