Literature
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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…
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Glanvill and Webster and the Literary War over Witchcraft
This article reflects upon the fact that studies related to witchcraft have been limited to a period of about one…
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Left in the Gutter: A Brief History of American Comic Books
For three decades, most historians familiar with the medium have recognized that American comic books have matured beyond their humble…
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‘The Graveyard Book’; or, How the Dead can Raise the Living
Neil Gaiman is an author of fantasy and horror fiction, who has written many books for adults, young adults, and…
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Realizing the Victorian Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
This article is an attempt to develop a theoretical basis by reading popular novels in conversation with the body of…
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Raygun Gothic Retrofuturism and Raypunk in Art Deco Context
Raygun Gothic, and a subgenre, Raypunk are instantly enthralled by the mixture of vintage imagery with sci-fi, and as such,…
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Die a Graphic Death: Revisiting the Death of Genre with Novels
Young adult literature is rife with exceptional examples of texts that defy genre; many graphic novels are excellent young adult…
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Reading the Ethics of the Soul and the Late-Victorian Gothic
As a literary phenomenon, the Victorian gothic manifests itself in fin-de-siècle literature both as a subversive supernatural force and as…
