Two hundred rare objects will trace 250 years of Gothic literature, in the British Library’s forthcoming ... musicians and fashion designers; adding color, wonder and a dash of delicious fear ...

The idea, he added, is to make the structure “clearly identifiable as a library,” and a “modern addition to the historic, brownstone Gothic church ... in form and color,” Conant ...

The exhibition begins and ends with an abstract interpretation of Walpole’s personal Strawberry Hill library, also the site of his home, which was the genesis for later gothic revival architecture ...