Gothic Horror

CLIVE BLOOM is Emeritus Professor, Middlesex University, UK. He is the author and editor of many works on popular culture, cultural history and literary criticism.

'...already deservedly a seminal work of Gothic scholarship.' - Susan Chaplin, BARS Bulletin

• AcknowledgementsChronology of Significant Landmarks in Horror and Gothic FictionPreface to the Second EditionIntroductionPART 1: GOTHIC WHISPERSExtract from Of the Sublime; E.Burke The Castle of Otranto, Preface to 1764 edition; H.Walpole The Castle of Otranto, Preface to second edition; H.Walpole Advertisement to The Monk; M.Lewis 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; W.Scott 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 PLOTExtract from The Man of the Crowd; E.A.Poe Extract from The Imp of the Perverse; E.A.Poe The Philosophy of Composition; E.A.Poe Extract from Eureka; E.A.Poe Extract from Marginalia; E.A.Poe Preface to The House of the Seven Gables; N.Hawthorne Extract from The Renaissance; W.Pater Extract from Nightmare Touch; L.Hearn An Autobiographical Postscript; E.Wharton PART 3: IN THE DARKExtract from The Uncanny; S.Freud On Algernon Blackwood; H.Belloc Preface to The Collected Ghost Stories; M.R.James 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: FEARMAKERSOn Horror Writers; R.Bloch Dracula, Frankenstine, Sons and Co.; K.Amis Symposium on H P Lovecraft; Los Angeles Science Fiction Society Extract from Interview for Playboy; S.King Extract from An Evening at Billericay Public Library; S.King On Stephen King; W.Strieber On Horror and Subversion; C.Barker PART 5: CONTEMPORARY SHIVERSTerrorism and the Gothic; D.Punter Extract from The Fantastic; T.Todorov Monster Culture (Seven Theses); J.J.Cohen 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; C.Bloom Epilogue: Further Thoughts on the GothicFurther ReadingIndex