Books
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The Paradox of Horror: The Dark Side of Gothic Aesthetics
Is Gothic an expression of our contemporary fears, or does it create our own nightmares? Robert Albert Bloch said “horror…
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Phantasmagorias of Childhood in the British Horror Stories
The short story in the twentieth century seems to illustrate a movement which displaces the abject or the object of…
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Rewriting Fiction: A Neo-Victorian Contemporary Approach
The present article focuses on some of the major neo-Victorian rewritings and the ways in which they (re)-explore, (re)-construct or…
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‘Paradise Lost’ and the Children of Sin in the Garden of Eden
The emphasis on the unnaturalness of the children of sin connects to the unnatural state of mankind after the original…
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Black Women’s Identity in Fighting the Supernatural
Historically, the branding of slaves signified ownership by another, a physical marker of the lack of agency the black woman…
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The Zoophagous Madness and Degeneracy in ‘Dracula’
As a zoophagous maniac, R. M. Renfield’s every utterance and movement is a clue to happenings in the larger world…
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Surprising Transformations of Unchaining Beastiality
This article examines images of beasts and bestiality in selected fictional and non-fictional writing about the city produced during the…
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Gothic Incest: Uncles, Thefts, Violence and Sexual Threats
Gothic Incestuous relationships between uncles and nieces abound in Gothic fiction; in fact, even in novels where the primary incestuous…
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The Publishing History of Tales of the Supernatural
This article explores the transmission of tales of the supernatural during the very long eighteenth-century (between c.1660 and 1832).
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Vampire Literature, Mythology and Fear of Immortal Affairs
Vampires may very well be immortal. The question of if they exist in our physical world or not has no…
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Spectrality and the Haunting in Ghost’s Cultural Gaze
Spectrality has always been one of the most interesting and controversial subjects in literature and in a high- and lowbrow…
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Neo-Victorian Cannibalism Towards an Aggressive Ambivalence
Not only is the imagery of eating repeatedly used by critics to comprehend neo-Victorian literature, the theme of cannibalism itself…
