A bilingual editorial, cultural research and educational project exploring identity, grief and belonging through literature, film and images.
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Think about who you are.
Question what you inherit.
By Alicia Domínguez · Writer and independent researcher.
A Question of Language and Recognition
What happens to the experiences a culture struggles to name, recognise or make room for?
Literature, horror, dreams, mythology and psychological thought enter into conversation with our experiences, exploring what remains unresolved and how we find words for it.
Grief is the connecting thread; the Gothic is the language.
Publications & Current Research
The questions that organise the library take shape through essays, publications and collaborations.
Each work explores a particular tension within this wider investigation.
Women in Supernatural
Academic contribution · McFarland, 2026
My chapter explores Mary Winchester through questions of fragmentation, identity, motherhood and death.
You Are Gothic, But You Don’t Know It
Seasonal magazine · Autumn 2026
Three connected articles explore belonging, loss and the places that shape us through Gothic literature and stories.
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Horror and Mother/hoods
Academic contribution · Demeter Press, 2026
My chapter brings personal experiences of motherhood and loss into dialogue with Gothic literature and Jungian thought.
Behind The Gothic Descent
I’m Alicia Domínguez, a writer, independent researcher and language teacher with a background in English Philology and Jungian psychology.
My work brings literature, Gothic stories and lived experience into conversation, exploring questions of identity, grief and belonging.
Through my publications and The Thinking Room, I create spaces to read, question, learn and write with others.
Continue the Descent
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Alice in Gothic Land.
I share the questions I am working with, the works that accompany them, and new essays and seasonal publications as they become available.
An invitation to keep thinking together, at your own pace.
Every culture leaves questions beneath the surface.
Every descent begins by learning how to listen to them.