This paper is based on a unit developed for senior English students. Students were challenged to draw connections between traditional Gothic texts and popular Gothic visual and written texts, using Romanticism as a springboard, through a series of carefully orchestrated exercises and tasks. Students read and discussed Frankenstein, Dracula, The Shining, film excerpts (The Sixth Sense, The Shining, Bladerunner, The Lost Boys among others) newspaper articles, poetry and philosophy to find the threads that connect.