Wednesday 16th October 2024 to Sunday 3rd November 2024
Venue: Chawton House
Back by popular demand, our Gothic Season opens on 16 October.
See the House decorated in the run-up to Halloween, with monsters lurking around every corner.
Two new displays celebrate the darker side of our collection. In the Long Gallery, Gothic Captivity introduces the unfortunate characters imprisoned in menacing monasteries and crumbling castles, thrilling scenes fresh from the minds of eighteenth-century Gothic novelists. You will find canonical Gothic novels alongside their popular chapbook imitations, exploring the female-authored villains who froze the blood of their readers.
In the Library, Gothic Creatures takes a look back at some of the terrifying creations of eighteenth-century Gothic: creatures cobbled together from corpses, the first English vampires, and a monstrous mermaid.
Included in the price of general admission.
