Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Chapter 1: Dark Beginnings: Fear and Trembling in the Novels of Charles Brockden Brown
Chapter 2: Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”: A Predecessor to Lovecraft’s “The Outsider”?
Chapter 3: The Realm of Suffering: Ambrose Bierce and the Phantoms of the American Civil War
Chapter 4: Suffering and Evil in the Short Fiction of Arthur Machen
Chapter 5: The Haunted Wood: Algernon Blackwood’s Canadian Stories
Chapter 6: The Sickness unto Death in H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Hound”
Chapter 7: The Aboriginal in the Works of H. P. Lovecraft
Chapter 8: What is “the Unnamable”? H. P. Lovecraft and the Problem of Evil
Chapter 9: From Salem to Eastwick: Witchcraft in the American Gothic
Chapter 10: The City of Darkness: Fritz Leiber and the Beginning of Modern Urban Horror

Selected Bibliography
Filmography
About the Author

About the Author

James Goho is an independent scholar in Canada with numerous publications in Gothic literature and in social science studies.

Reviews

Anyone interested in Gothic literature—especially by the authors examined herein—will find much to ponder in Goho’s essays.
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