Carrie Stephen King

Stephen King’s Carrie and Peter Shaffer’s Equus both centre around teenage characters who are torn between their emergent sexuality and the religious views of their parents. King and Shaffer use characterisation to portray lust as a sin, then use...

The gothic influence is still undeniably present on contemporary fiction. Although this influence is rather obvious in most of cases, it is more complex that it seems in some works, specifically in the creation of certain atmospheres or the...