The Gothic

CONTENTS: Justin Sausman - Arthur Machen's The Three Impostors (1895) - Victorian Gothic - Johan Höglund: Richard Marsh's The Joss: A Reversion (1901) - Imperial Gothic - Tabish Khair: Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) - Postcolonial Gothic - Steffen Hantke: Bill Condon's Gods and Monsters (1998) - War Gothic - James Peacock: Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland; or The Transformation (1798) - Transatlantic Gothic - Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet: Robert Bloch's American Gothic (1974) - American Gothic - Timothy Jones: Clarence John Laughlin's Ghosts Along the Mississippi (1948) - Southern Gothic - Maisha L. Wester: Brandon Massey's Dark Corner (2004) - African American Gothic - Sarah Juliet Lauro: Ron Honthaner's The House on Skull Mountain (1974) - Zombie Gothic - Enrique Ajuria Ibarra/Luis Daniel Martínez Álvarez: Caifanes (1987-Present) - Mexican Gothic - Ashleigh Prosser: Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967/1975) - Australian Gothic - Katarzyna Ancuta: Otsuichi's Goth (2002) - Japanese Gothic - Claire Nally: Whitby Goth Weekend (1994-Present) - Gothic Subcultures - Tracy Fahey: Aideen Barry's Possession (2011) - Suburban/Domestic Gothic - Max Fincher: Matthew Lewis's The Monk (1796) - Queer Gothic - Kathleen Hudson: Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) - Female Gothic - Gina Wisker: Sarah Waters's The Paying Guests (2014) - Postfeminist Gothic - Maria Beville: A. S. Byatt's 'The Dried Witch' (1987) - Postmodern Gothic - Peter N. Lindfield: Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill House (1749) - Architectural Gothic - Julia Round: Grant Morrison, Dave McKean, and Gaspar Saladino's Arkham Asylum (1989) - Gothic Comics - Xavier Aldana Reyes: Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak (2015) - Gothic Film - Emily Flynn-Jones: Tale of Tales's The Path (2009) - Gaming and the Gothic - Lorna Piatti-Farnell: Cormac McCarthy's The Road (2006) - Food Gothic - Linnie Blake: Max Brooks's World War Z (2006) - Neoliberal Gothic - Sara Wasson: China Miéville's Perdido Street

Simon Bacon has published many articles on vampires, zombies and monsters in popular culture and science fiction and has co-edited books on various subjects, including Undead Memory: Vampires and Human Memory in Popular Culture (2014), Little Horrors: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Anomalous Children and the Construction of Monstrosity (2016) and To Boldly Go: Gender and Identity in the Star Trek Franchise (2017). His first monograph, Becoming Vampire: Difference and the Vampire in Popular Culture, came out in 2016. He is currently working on his second book, The Undead Self: Troubled and Troubling Identities in Screen Adaptations of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'.