Books
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Lovecraftian Twenty-First-Century Popular Transformation in the Weird Times
In 1974 Angela Carter declared, “we live in gothic times.” It is perhaps more apposite these days to suggest that…
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The Clarity of Darkness: Experiencing the Gothic Anthropological Role
There are many ways of writing ethnographies, taking the shape of realistic stories, confessions, dramatic ethnography, and the perspective we…
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The True-Weird and the Dreadful American Horror Hostility
This article debates the rife knowability of “true” horror, especially that which is stemmed from the “beyond”, “vast” or “sublime”…
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The Female Gothic: From the Second-Wave to Post-Feminism
This article examines the reception history of women-authored Gothic texts from the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century, arguing that the…
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The Sinister Fascination and the Challenges of the Gothic Black Veil
This article focuses on a unique aspect of the complicated relationship between the literary and the visual Gothic, the story…
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Gender, Genre and Dracula: Joan Copjec and “Vampire Fiction”
Perhaps the most celebrated recent intervention into the field of history, gender, and the Gothic is Joan Copjec’s ‘Read My…
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Lesbianism and the Vampire in “Christabel”and Carmilla
Le Fanu colors Laura’s sexual exploration with Gothic convention and vampirism, and in so doing, reinforces the close relationship that…
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Introduction to the Monstrous Women of Dracula and Carmilla
Portrayals of vampire women have changed very little from the nineteenth- to the twentieth-first-century, as is especially evident in the…
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‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ and the Gothic Carnivalesque
Bradbury’s favourite work of fiction, and the one that best exemplifies both the gothic and the carnivalesque qualities of his…
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The Cultural Historical Context of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Mary Shelley conceived her creature at the height of the literary and philosophical period called Romanticism, and Frankenstein became the…
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Women Writers, Madness, Death and Sylvia Plath’s Gothic
Sylvia Plath gives us something worse than the ice-cold, unsmiling, lurking, grim reaper
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‘Witchfinder General’: From Historical Novel to “Horror” Film
One of the developments in the representation of witchcraft at the end of the twentieth-century is that the portrayal of…
