Readings
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The Aspects of Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Scandinavian Literature
In nineteenth‐century Scandinavian literature, hair‐raising accounts of terrifying supernatural events are sometimes explained, but sometimes not
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On the Dialectics of Vampirism, Capital, and Time
In articulating a set of arguments about the relationships between vampirism, capital, and time, we will attempt to reclaim the…
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Lovecraftian Monstrosity, Cosmic Horror and the Gothic
All ideas are fundamental in understanding Lovecraft’s approach to writing fiction, and how his fiction subverted popular narrative presentation through…
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Frankenfiction: Blending Horror Classics with Modern Monstrosity
Analyzing Frankenfiction as a hybrid genre at the nexus of adaptation, remix, and appropriation, offering new perspectives on literary creativity…
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Weird Tales and Horror in the Sherlockian Canon
We are all familiar with these words from ‘The Devil’s Foot,’ words that as easily could have been written by…
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Gothic and the Oriental Renaissance Transgressive Boundaries
The Gothic is frequently identified with two obsessions: a concern with otherness and alterity, and a compulsion to explore socially…
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the Gothic Monster’s Mother
Considering Frankenstein as an example of “the Female Gothic,” she argues that the novel was shaped by Mary Shelley’s experience…
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Introduction to the Pleasures of Horror and the Joy of Misery
This article investigates the allure of narrative genres, such as horror, that have historically been viewed as philosophically problematic owing…
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Ethereal Materialism and Spectres in Victorian Ghost Stories
This article opens a discussion of how an increased awareness of things, bodies and epistemologies in the female-authored ghost story…
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“A Creature Made Afresh”: Creating the Gothic American Child
This article delineates a range of literary endeavours engaging the gothic contours of child life in early to mid-twentieth century…
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‘She Played with Dolls and Killed’: Anne Rice’s Vampire Child
We thought to embrace that, asking the scholarly community for articles that considered “the Gothic in all its forms” and…
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The Numinous and Post-Gothic Ghost Experience Literature
The earliest instances of Gothic fiction can best be described as the guilty pleasures of a self-congratulatory period of Enlightenment
