Nightmare fuel doesn’t come more clean-burning than a porcelain face gazing blankly from the window of a Victorian toyshop (unless it’s Nigel Farage showering on I’m A Celebrity….). That is the creepy ...

Fumbling in the dark, he reached for her corset lace and, with one tug, released her from the garment… Or not. As racy Victorian novelist Deeanne Gist has gone to lengths to show, there was no such ...

Romance novelist Deeanne Gist went to extreme lengths to understand her characters-she ordered a full Victorian costume, including underwear. Get underneath her hoop skirt with WSJ's Alexandra Alter.

TESS of the D’Ubervilles, Thomas Hardy’s Victorian bodice ripper, seems even more passionate when presented by Theatreworks in the open air at Arley Hall. August can’t have been a good month ...

A verdant countryside. A mansion teeming with ladies' maids, scheming dowagers and bad-tempered old fogies. The unmistakable sound of a horse's hooves crunching along a gravel drive, hauling a ...