Gothic fiction whose best-known work was the 1960 Hollywood horror novel "What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?" Farrell's novels spawned a subgenre of "Grande Dame Guignol" in the cinema, represented by such films as the 1962 film based on Farrell's novel, which starred Bette Davis versus Joan Crawford; this subgenre of films was dubbed the "psycho-biddy" genre. Many modern writers of horror (or indeed other types of fiction) exhibit considerable Gothic sensibilities—examples include the works of Anne Rice, Stella Coulson, Susan Hill, Poppy Z. Brite and Neil Gaiman as well as some of the sensationalist works of Stephen King Thomas M. Disch's
Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? her relative lack of screen time in "Warriors of Kudlak". Stuart summed up "Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?" as "the darkest, most ambitious and most effective Sarah Jane story to date" and "one of the best New Who stories to date". Andrea Mullaney in "The Scotsman" also commended the "young actors", while calling attention to a "gentle theme" in the story of "ageing and what we leave behind". The second part of the story received the most viewers of any programme ever broadcast on the CBBC Channel. This was the fifth of eleven Sarah Jane Adventures serials to be adapted