Acknowledgements
Chronology of Significant Landmarks in Horror and Gothic Fiction
Preface to the Second EditionIntroduction
PART 1: GOTHIC WHISPERS
Extract from Of the Sublime; [...]
The Castle of Otranto, Preface to 1764 edition; H.Walpole
The Castle of Otranto, Preface to second edition; H.Walpole
Advertisement to The Monk; [...]
Extract from On 'The Monk'; S.T.Coleridge
Extract from The Italian; A.Radcliffe
Extract from Discourse 1: 'Gothick'; J.Reynolds
Frankenstein, Preface to 1817 edition; M.Shelley
Frankenstein, Preface to 1831 edition; M.Shelley
Remarks on Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus; [...]
Extract from Northanger Abbey; J.Austen
Extract from Nightmare Abbey; T.L.Peacock
Melmoth, the Wanderer, Preface to 1820 edition; C.Maturin
On the Supernatural in Poetry; A.Radcliffe
PART 2: HORROR THE SOUL OF THE PLOT
Extract from The Man of the Crowd; E.[...]
Extract from The Imp of the Perverse; E.[...]
The Philosophy of Composition; E.[...]
Extract from Eureka; E.[...]
Extract from Marginalia; E.[...]
Preface to The House of the Seven Gables; N.Hawthorne
Extract from The Renaissance; [...]
Extract from Nightmare Touch; [...]
An Autobiographical Postscript; E.Wharton
PART 3: IN THE DARKExtract from The Uncanny; [...]
On Algernon Blackwood; H.Belloc
Preface to The Collected Ghost Stories; M.[...]
Extract from The Supernatural in Literature; H.P.Lovecraft
Extract from The Vampire in Literature; M.Summers
I like Playing Dracula; B.Lugosi
Author's Note from The Devil Rides Out; D.Wheatley
Gothic Hangover; E.S.Turner
PART 4: FEARMAKERS
On Horror Writers; [...]
Dracula, Frankenstine, Sons and Co.; [...]
Symposium on H P Lovecraft; Los Angeles Science Fiction Society
Extract from Interview for Playboy; [...]
Extract from An Evening at Billericay Public Library; [...]
On Stephen King; W.Strieber
On Horror and Subversion; C.Barker
PART 5: CONTEMPORARY SHIVERS
Terrorism and the Gothic; D.Punter
Extract from The Fantastic; T.Todorov
Monster Culture (Seven Theses); J.[...]
Extract from Freakery; R.G.Thomson
The Body of Frankenstein's Monster; C.Helman
Narrative Structure, Liminality, Self Similarity: The Case of Gothic Fiction; M.Aguirre
Horror Narratives; L.Talairach-Vielmas
African American and Afro Caribbean Women's Horror as Contemporary Cultural Critique; G.Wisker
All Dark Inside: Zombies and Detectives; [...]
Epilogue: Further Thoughts on the Gothic
Further Reading
Index