Table of Contents

Introduction Ainsworth, W.Harrison; R.A.Gilbert American Gothic ; A.L.Smith Architecture see Gothic Revival Beckford, William; M.Franklin Bierce, Ambrose; A.L.Smith Blackwood, Algernon; T.Willard The Bront� E.Imlay Brown, Brockden; T.Lustig Bulwer-Lytton, Edward; H.Small Carter, Angela; E.Jordan Contemporary Gothic; A.B.Tracy Death; E.Bronfen The Demonic; H.Stoddart Dickens, Charles; B.F.Fisher Doyle, Arthur Conan; C.Bloom English-Canadian Gothic; G.Turcotte Female Gothic; A.Milbank Frenetique School; T.Hale German Gothic; H.U.Mohr Ghost Stories; R.A.Gilbert Goethe, J.W.Von; E.H.Denton Gothic Drama; J.Cox Gothic Film; I.Conrich Gothic Novel; V.Sage Gothic Revival; V.Sage Gothic Romance; A.B.Tracy Graveyard School; S.Clark Hawthorne, Nathaniel; R.Miles Hero-Villain; H.Stoddart Heroine; A.Horner Hoffman, E.T.A.; H.U.Mohr Hogg, James; D.Mack Horror; F.Botting Imagination; P.Martin Irish Gothic; W.J.McCormack Irving, Washington; A.L.Smith Jacobs, W.W.; J.Cloy James, Henry; T.Lustig James, M.R.; W.Hughes Le Fanu, J.Sheridan; W.J.McCormack Lewis, Matthew; N.Trott Lovecraft, H.P.; C.Bloom Machen, Arthur; R.A.Gilbert Madness; H.Small Maturin, Charles ; C.Malet-Dagreou Melville, Herman; R.Lee Monstrosity; F.Botting New Gothic see Contemporary Gothic Nightmare; P.Martin Occultism; T.Willard Orientalism; M.Franklin Penny Dreadfuls; R.A.Gilbert Poe, Edgar Allan; B.F.Fisher Post-Colonial Gothic; K.Gelder Radcliffe, Ann; R.Miles Rice, Anne; M.Mulvey Roberts Roman Noir; T.Hale Romanticism; P.Martin Russian Gothic; N.Cornwell Sade, Marquis de; E.Clery Sado-Masochism; E.Bronfen San Francisco Gothic; W.Veeder Scottish Gothic; D.Mack Shelley, Mary; M.Mulvey Roberts Shelley, P.B.; N.Trott Southern Gothic; R.Lee Stevenson, Robert Louis; J.E.Hogle Stoker, Bram ; W.Hughes The Sublime; A.Milbank The Supernatural; C.Bloom Terror; D.Punter The Uncanny see Unheimlich Vampire; W.Hughes Walpole, Horace; E.Clery Wandering Jew; H.U.Mohr Welsh Gothic; S.Erion Werewolf see Lycanthropy Wilde, Oscar; N.Sammells Witches and Witchcraft; F.Ringel Wizards; F.Ringel Zerrissenheit; C.Houswitschka

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LUCIE ARMITT Lecturer in English, University of Wales, Bangor CLIVE BLOOM Reader in English, Middlesex University, London FRED BOTTING Lecturer in English, Lancaster University ELIZABETH BRONFEN Professor of English, Zurich University STEVEN BRUHM Associate Professor in English, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia CHARLES BUTLER Lecturer in Literary Studies, University of the West of England, Bristol AMARYLL BEATRICE CHANADY Professor in Comparative Literature, University of Montreal STEVE CLARK Lecturer in English, Osaka University EMMA CLERY Research Fellow, Sheffield Hallam University JOHN CLOY Librarian, John Davis Williams Library, University of Mississippi IAN CONRICH Lecturer in Film Studies, Brunel University NEIL CORNWELL Professor in Russian, University of Bristol JEFFREY N.COX Associate Professor in English, Texas A&M University ERIC HADLEY DENTON Associate Professor in English, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania MADGE DRESSER Principal Lecturer in Historical Studies, University of the West of England SION EIRIAN freelance writer, Cardiff U.A.FANTHORPE poet, Wootton-under-Edge BENJAMIN F.FISHER Associate Professor in English, University of Mississippi MICHAEL FRANKLIN Lecturer in English Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff KEN GELDER Associate Professor in English, University of Melbourne R.A.GILBERT writer and bookseller, Bristol ANTONIO BALLESTEROS GONZALEZ Lecturer in English, Universidad Autonoma, Madrid IAIN HAMILTON GRANT Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of the West of England TERRY HALE Director, The British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia JERROLD E.HOGLE Associate Professor in English, University of Arizona, Tucson AVRIL HORNER Lecturer in English, Salford University CHRISTOPH HOUSWITSCHKA Lecturer in English, University of Dresden WILLIAM HUGHES Lecturer in English, Bath College of Higher Education ELIZABETH IMLAY writer and publisher, Speldhurst, Kent DARRYL JONES Lecturer in English, Trinity College, University of Dublin ELAINE JORDAN Senior Lecturer in English, University of Essex RICHARD KERRIDGE Lecturer in English, Bath College of Higher Education SALLY LEDGER Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College, University of London ROBERT LEE Professor in English, Nihon University, Japan TIM LUSTIG Lecturer in American Studies, Keele University DOUGLAS MACK Senior Lecturer in English, University of Stirling CECILE MALET-DAGREOU Postgraduate student in English, Goldsmiths College, University of London PHILIP MARTIN Head of Humanities, Cheltenham, and Gloucester College, Cheltenham J.M.MCCORMACK Senior Lecturer in English, Goldsmiths College, University of London ALISON MILBANK writer, Cambridge ROBERT MILES Reader in English, Sheffield Hallam University PASCAL NICKLAS Lecturer in English, Leipzig University, Germany GRAHAM OVENDEN artist, Cornwall DAVID PUNTER Professor in English Studies, University of Stirling TINA RATH writer and postgraduate student, Royal College of Holloway and Bedford, London FAYE RINGEL Associate Professor in English, US Coast Guard Academy, New London, USA VICTOR SAGE Reader in English and American Studies, University of East Anglia NEIL SAMMELLS Head of English, Bath College of Higher Education DAVID SEED Lecturer in English, Liverpool University HELEN SMALL Lecturer in English, Pembroke College, Oxford HELEN STODDART Lecturer in English, Keele University JANET TODD Professor in English and American Literature, University of East Anglia ANN TRACY Associate Professor in English, State University of New York at Plattsburgh GERRY TURCOTTE Senior Lecturer in English Studies, Wollongong University, Australia THOMAS TILLARD Associate Professor in English, University of Arizona, Tucson MARY WALDRON Lecturer in Continuing Education, University of Exeter CAROLYN D.WILLIAMS Senior Lecturer in English, University of Reading

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LUCIE ARMITT Lecturer in English, University of Wales, Bangor CLIVE BLOOM Reader in English, Middlesex University, London FRED BOTTING Lecturer in English, Lancaster University ELIZABETH BRONFEN Professor of English, Zurich University STEVEN BRUHM Associate Professor in English, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia CHARLES BUTLER Lecturer in Literary Studies, University of the West of England, Bristol AMARYLL BEATRICE CHANADY Professor in Comparative Literature, University of Montreal STEVE CLARK Lecturer in English, Osaka University EMMA CLERY Research Fellow, Sheffield Hallam University JOHN CLOY Librarian, John Davis Williams Library, University of Mississippi IAN CONRICH Lecturer in Film Studies, Brunel University NEIL CORNWELL Professor in Russian, University of Bristol JEFFREY N. COX Associate Professor in English, Texas A&M University ERIC HADLEY DENTON Associate Professor in English, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania MADGE DRESSER Principal Lecturer in Historical Studies, University of the West of England SION EIRIAN freelance writer, Cardiff U.A. FANTHORPE poet, Wootton-under-Edge BENJAMIN F. FISHER Associate Professor in English, University of Mississippi MICHAEL FRANKLIN Lecturer in English Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff KEN GELDER Associate Professor in English, University of Melbourne R.A. GILBERT writer and bookseller, Bristol ANTONIO BALLESTEROS GONZALEZ Lecturer in English, Universidad Autonoma, Madrid IAIN HAMILTON GRANT Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of the West of England TERRY HALE Director, The British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia JERROLD E. HOGLE Associate Professor in English, University of Arizona, Tucson AVRIL HORNER Lecturer in English, Salford University CHRISTOPH HOUSWITSCHKA Lecturer in English, University of Dresden WILLIAM HUGHES Lecturer in English, Bath College of Higher Education ELIZABETH IMLAY writer and publisher, Speldhurst, Kent DARRYL JONES Lecturer in English, Trinity College, University of Dublin ELAINE JORDAN Senior Lecturer in English, University of Essex RICHARD KERRIDGE Lecturer in English, Bath College of Higher Education SALLY LEDGER Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College, University of London ROBERT LEE Professor in English, Nihon University, Japan TIM LUSTIG Lecturer in American Studies, Keele University DOUGLAS MACK Senior Lecturer in English, University of Stirling CECILE MALET-DAGREOU Postgraduate student in English, Goldsmiths College, University of London PHILIP MARTIN Head of Humanities, Cheltenham, and Gloucester College, Cheltenham J.M. MCCORMACK Senior Lecturer in English, Goldsmiths College, University of London ALISON MILBANK writer, Cambridge ROBERT MILES Reader in English, Sheffield Hallam University PASCAL NICKLAS Lecturer in English, Leipzig University, Germany GRAHAM OVENDEN artist, Cornwall DAVID PUNTER Professor in English Studies, University of Stirling TINA R.

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