Table of Contents

Part I: Monstrous politics
1. Alan Moore and the Gothic tradition - Matthew J.A. Green
2. 'Soap opera of the paranormal': surreal Englishness and postimperial Gothic in The Bojeffries Saga - Tony Venezia
3. A Gothic politics: Alan Moore's Swamp Thing and radical ecology - Maggie Gray
Part II: Gothic tropes
4. 'Is that you, our Jack?': an anatomy of Alan Moore's doubling strategies - Jochen Ecke
5. 'Nothing ever ends': facing the apocalypse in Watchmen - Christian W. Schneider
6. Gothic liminality in V for Vendetta - Markus Oppolzer
Part III: Inheritance and adaptation
7. 'The sleep of reason': Swamp Thing and the intertextual reader - Michael Bradshaw
8. Madness and the City: the collapse of reason and sanity in Alan Moore's From Hell - Monica Germanà
9. 'I fashioned a prison that you could not leave': the Gothic imperative in The Castle of Otranto and 'For the man who has everything' - Brad Ricca
10. Radical coterie and the idea of sole survival in St Leon, Frankenstein and Watchmen - Claire Sheridan
11. Reincarnating Mina Murray: subverting the Gothic heroine? - Laura Hilton
Part IV: Art, magic, sex, other
12. 'These are not our promised resurrections': unearthing the uncanny in Alan Moore's A Small Killing, From Hell, and A Disease of Language - Christopher Murray
13. Medium, spirits and embodiment in Voice of the Fire - Julia Round
14. A darker magic: heterocosms and bricolage in Moore's recent reworkings of Lovecraft - Matthew J. A. Green
Index

About the Author

Matthew J. A. Green is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nottingham