Reviews
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‘Between Two Worlds’ (‘Der Müde Tod’) Review
After Victor Sjöström perfected the trick of double exposure in ‘The Phantom Carriage’, it continued to be used by other…
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‘The Phantom Chariot; The Stroke of Midnight’ Review
The question of when and where the horror genre was brought to life has been, and will perhaps always be,…
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‘Horror Film: A Critical Introduction’ by Murray Leeder
This is a book review of ‘Horror Film: A Critical Introduction’ by Murray Leeder, a comprehensive yet concise introductory guide…
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Rediscovering Horror: From Graveyard Poetry to Popular Culture
‘Horror: A Literary History’, edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes, is divided into seven chapters which function as separate essays that…
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Sarah Burns’s ‘Painting the Dark Side’: Art and the Gothic
Sarah Burns’s book, ‘Painting the Dark Side’, aims to overturn what we think we know about nineteenth-century American art
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‘Dangerous Bodies’: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal
In this ambitious and comprehensive tome, ‘Dangerous Bodies’ engages with the Gothic’s obsession with the corporeal.
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Horror Before Horror: Arthur Machen’s Nightmares
Worth concludes with similarly well-crafted analyses of two currents in Arthur Machen’s fiction that have contributed to his important place…
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From Text to Myth: Penny Dreadful and Adaptation
This article examines contamination as a form of adaptation in the Showtime/Sky television series Penny Dreadful.
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The Gothic, Violent Intervention of ‘Une Semaine de bonté’
In the year that ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ came out, as I have indicated, another novel featuring a murder…
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The Bloodied Compartment of ‘Murder on the Orient Express’
Agatha Christie’s ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ is in one sense a reinscription of Émile Zola’s naturalist masterpiece ‘La Bête…
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Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium Insights
Duke University Press has lovingly reproduced the cover art of albums and a few singles in full colour alongside John…
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‘Contemporary Gothic’, by Catherine Spooner
An enduring truism about the cultural phenomenon known as the Gothic is that it simply will not die.
