This Companion is a standard reference work for scholars and students of the Gothic from its origins to the present day. Providing stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy, it offers coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned.

Part I:

1. In Gothic Darkly: Heterotopia, History, Culture: Fred Botting.
2. The Goths in History and Pre-Gothic Gothic: Robin Sowerby.
3. European Gothic: Neil Cornwell.

Part II: The 'Original' Gothic:

4. Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis: Robert Miles.
5. Mary Shelley, Author of Frankenstein: Nora Crook.
6. Walter Scott, James Hogg and Scottish Gothic: Ian Duncan.
7. Irish Gothic: C. R. Maturin and J. S. LeFanu: Victor Sage.
8. The Political Culture of Gothic Drama: David Worrall.

Part III: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Transmutations:

9. Nineteenth-century American Gothic: Allan Lloyd Smith.
10. The Ghost Story: Julia Briggs.
11. Gothic in the 1890s: Glennis Byron.
12. Fictional Vampires in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: William Hughes.
13. Horror Fiction: In Search of a Definition: Clive Bloom.
14. Love Bites: Contemporary Women's Vampire Fictions: Gina Wisker .
15. Gothic Film: Heidi Kaye.

Part IV: Gothic: Theory and Genre:

16. Gothic Criticism: Chris Baldick and Robert Mighall.
17. Psychoanalysis and the Gothic: Michelle Masse.
18. Comic Gothic: Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik.

Part V: The Continuing Debate:

19. Can You Forgive Her? The Gothic Heroine and Her Critics: Kate Ferguson Ellis.
20. Picture This: Stephen King's Queer Gothic: Steven Bruhm.
21. Seeing Things: Gothic and the Madness of Interpretation: Scott Brewster.
22. The Gothic Ghost of the Counterfeit and the Progress of Abjection: Jerrold E. Hogle.
23. The Magical Realism of the Contemporary Gothic: Lucie Armitt.
24. The Uncanny: David Punter.

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