Editor Melissa Edmundson specializes in 19th and 20th-century British women writers, with particular interests in ghost stories, the Gothic, and Anglo-Indian popular fiction.

“Valuable contribution to the study of the evolution of the Gothic genre and to the rise of Gothic horror TV.... Edmundson has gathered a wonderful set of articles.... Both the editor and the publisher deserve praise for their meticulous editing of the essays in the collection...an important scholarly contribution”—H-Net Reviews; “devoted to the ongoing employment and development of the Gothic in the monster-hunting family drama”—ProtoView; “a great book”—Supernatural Wiki.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction (Melissa Edmundson)Part 1. Gothic Tropes and TraditionsGothic Anxieties—Then and Now: A Post–9/11 Examination of the Gothic (Alexandra Lykissas)The Automobile as Moving Castle (Thomas Knowles)Shadows of Hope: Gothic Motifs and Nihilism (Dana Fore)Part 2. Gothic Storytelling“You can’t spell subtext without ­S-E-X”: Gothic Intertextuality and the (Queer) Uncanny (Jamil Mustafa)“I know everything that’s going to happen”: The Self-Reflexive Compulsion to Repeat (with a Difference) (Michael Fuchs)Gothic Imaginings: Folkloric Roots (Daniel P. Compora)Part 3. Gothic Women: Heroes and VictimsColoniality and the Chicana Gothic: Travelling Myths in the Pilot(Leow Hui Min Annabeth)Wearing the Woman in White: The Doomed Lives and Afterlives of Women (E. J. Nielsen)“What’s up, bitches?” Charlie Bradbury as Gothic Heroine (Ashley Walton)Part 4. Gothic Others: Monstrous Selves “We’ve all been demons”: Postmodern Gothic and the Fragmented Self (Jessica Seymour)“Sympathy for the Devil”: The Neutralization of Traditionally Evil Figures (Samantha J. Vertosick)“Psychotically, irrationally, erotically codependent”: Incest and the Gothic Other (Megan Fowler)We All Have a Little Monster in Us: Dean Winchester, the Mark of Cain and the New Monster Paradigm (Lisa Schmidt)About the ContributorsIndex

Editor Melissa Edmundson specializes in 19th and 20th-century British women writers, with particular interests in ghost stories, the Gothic, and Anglo-Indian popular fiction.

“Valuable contribution to the study of the evolution of the Gothic genre and to the rise of Gothic horror TV.... Edmundson has gathered a wonderful set of articles.... Both the editor and the publisher deserve praise for their meticulous editing of the essays in the collection...an important scholarly contribution”—H-Net Reviews; “devoted to the ongoing employment and development of the Gothic in the monster-hunting family drama”—ProtoView; “a great book”—Supernatural Wiki.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction (Melissa Edmundson)Part 1. Gothic Tropes and TraditionsGothic Anxieties—Then and Now: A Post–9/11 Examination of the Gothic (Alexandra Lykissas)The Automobile as Moving Castle (Thomas Knowles)Shadows of Hope: Gothic Motifs and Nihilism (Dana Fore)Part 2. Gothic Storytelling“You can’t spell subtext without ­S-E-X”: Gothic Intertextuality and the (Queer) Uncanny (Jamil Mustafa)“I know everything that’s going to happen”: The Self-Reflexive Compulsion to Repeat (with a Difference) (Michael Fuchs)Gothic Imaginings: Folkloric Roots (Daniel P. Compora)Part 3. Gothic Women: Heroes and VictimsColoniality and the Chicana Gothic: Travelling Myths in the Pilot(Leow Hui Min Annabeth)Wearing the Woman in White: The Doomed Lives and Afterlives of Women (E. J. Nielsen)“What’s up, bitches?” Charlie Bradbury as Gothic Heroine (Ashley Walton)Part 4. Gothic Others: Monstrous Selves “We’ve all been demons”: Postmodern Gothic and the Fragmented Self (Jessica Seymour)“Sympathy for the Devil”: The Neutralization of Traditionally Evil Figures (Samantha J. Vertosick)“Psychotically, irrationally, erotically codependent”: Incest and the Gothic Other (Megan Fowler)We All Have a Little Monster in Us: Dean Winchester, the Mark of Cain and the New Monster Paradigm (Lisa Schmidt)About the ContributorsIndex

Editor Melissa Edmundson specializes in 19th and 20th-century British women writers, with particular interests in ghost stories, the Gothic, and Anglo-Indian popular fiction.

“Valuable contribution to the study of the evolution of the Gothic genre and to the rise of Gothic horror TV.... Edmundson has gathered a wonderful set of articles.... Both the editor and the publisher deserve praise for their meticulous editing of the essays in the collection...an important scholarly contribution”—H-Net Reviews; “devoted to the ongoing employment and development of the Gothic in the monster-hunting family drama”—ProtoView; “a great book”—Supernatural Wiki.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction (Melissa Edmundson)Part 1. Gothic Tropes and TraditionsGothic Anxieties—Then and Now: A Post–9/11 Examination of the Gothic (Alexandra Lykissas)The Automobile as Moving Castle (Thomas Knowles)Shadows of Hope: Gothic Motifs and Nihilism (Dana Fore)Part 2. Gothic Storytelling“You can’t spell subtext without ­S-E-X”: Gothic Intertextuality and the (Queer) Uncanny (Jamil Mustafa)“I know everything that’s going to happen”: The Self-Reflexive Compulsion to Repeat (with a Difference) (Michael Fuchs)Gothic Imaginings: Folkloric Roots (Daniel P. Compora)Part 3. Gothic Women: Heroes and VictimsColoniality and the Chicana Gothic: Travelling Myths in the Pilot(Leow Hui Min Annabeth)Wearing the Woman in White: The Doomed Lives and Afterlives of Women (E. J. Nielsen)“What’s up, bitches?” Charlie Bradbury as Gothic Heroine (Ashley Walton)Part 4. Gothic Others: Monstrous Selves “We’ve all been demons”: Postmodern Gothic and the Fragmented Self (Jessica Seymour)“Sympathy for the Devil”: The Neutralization of Traditionally Evil Figures (Samantha J. Vertosick)“Psychotically, irrationally, erotically codependent”: Incest and the Gothic Other (Megan Fowler)We All Have a Little Monster in Us: Dean Winchester, the Mark of Cain and the New Monster Paradigm (Lisa Schmidt)About the ContributorsIndex