The Gothic is frequently identified with two obsessions: a concern with otherness and alterity, and a compulsion to explore socially aberrant desires and transgress boundaries

Considering Frankenstein as an example of “the Female Gothic,” she argues that the novel was shaped by Mary Shelley’s experience of womanhood — and especially of childbirth

This article investigates the allure of narrative genres, such as horror, that have historically been viewed as philosophically problematic owing to their harmful content and the painful emotional response

This article opens a discussion of how an increased awareness of things, bodies and epistemologies in the female-authored ghost story might enable more nuanced or culturally-specific readings of the form

This article delineates a range of literary endeavours engaging the gothic contours of child life in early to mid-twentieth century America

We thought to embrace that, asking the scholarly community for articles that considered “the Gothic in all its forms” and received a wide variety of responses.