Though it was a novel—Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto—that launched the gothic movement in 1764, in recent years many visual artists—including Terence Koh, Marnie Weber and Gregor Schneider have succumbed to the allure of the gothic, a potent cocktail of horror, melodrama and romance. Today, to celebrate Halloween, NOWNESS asks Francesca Gavin, author of Laurence King’s Hellbound: New Gothic Art, to take us on a spooky journey through her favourite darkly artistic images.