Tap into your inner darkness with a month and a half of gothic-tinged films, many of them based on tales by Shirley Jackson, Anne Rice, Mary Shelley, the Brontë sisters and Toni Morrison. Vampires, monsters, hauntings and terror of the more realistic variety (see the racially motivated violence of To Kill a Mockingbird) stalk the museum’s Phyllis Wattis Theater, providing the thrilling release gothic tales have offered audiences since The Castle of Otranto was published in 1764. —Sarah Hotchkiss