A long-lost painting by Vincent Van Gogh has recently gone on display in Amsterdam. Sunset at Montmajour is a large oil landscape that was created by the post-impressionist artist in 1888 but has spent the last hundred years laying abandoned in a Norwegian attic.

Anyone who’s really into heavy metal can tell you that the clichés about the music’s fans all being loudmouthed, leather-clad adolescents isn’t true now, if it ever was.

Anyone with an interest in the forbidden and arcane arts, who find themselves in Edinburgh this autumn, would be well advised to check out the current special exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

One more sleep until Bloodstock Open Air – the UK’s largest independent metal festival, which takes place in Walton on Trent in Derbyshire. The event runs until 11 August and features four stages with King Diamond, Lamb of God and Slayer all headlining the Ronnie James Dio main stage.

This summer, cinema goers will be treated to another reboot of a classic story.

What is or isn’t Goth has always been a tricky question among the children of the night themselves.

Decades of Gothic literature and Hollywood horror have established Transylvania as the homeland of the undead.

If you or someone you know is getting married this month, then they’re in good company – statistics show that more weddings take place in June than at any other time of year and it’s not just down to the likelihood of good weather.

Last Sunday, May 26th, was the centenary of the birth of one of Britain’s best-loved character actors.

New York’s golden age of glamour and jazz is being revisited at the movies through a reworking of F Scott Fitzgerald’s famous novel The Great Gatsby.

Having risen from the grave in grand style last year with their box-office hit The Woman in Black, Britain’s legendary Gothic studio Hammer Films have been spreading their bat-wings into other media.

It’s a modest little artefact, but it inspired one of the best-loved bestsellers in literary history, in turn initiating a trio of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters.

Have you ever thought about becoming an Alchemy dealer? Whether you currently run a shop or webstore, or you are simply thinking of an extra or alternative income stream, Alchemy’s vast range of product and global popularity could be just what you are looking for!

A recent archaeology conference in Turkey witnessed a startling revelation by the Italian archaeologist Professor Francesco D’Andria of the University of Salento.

April marks National Poetry Month – it’s a time to celebrate creative verse and those who write it.