Rebecca Duncan is Associate Professor in Literature at Linnaeus University and Research Associate in English at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her recent publications include the edited volume The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic (2023), which won both the Justin D. Edwards Prize and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award in 2024. Rebekah Cumpsty is Associate Professor of Anglophone World Literature at Weber State University. She is the author of Postsecular Poetics: Negotiating the Sacred and Secular in Contemporary African Fiction (2022). Her research interests include religious studies and the postsecular, postcolonial and world literatures, with a focus on anglophone African fiction. Her recent publications have appeared in Gothic Studies, The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic (2023) and Contemporary Literature and the Body (2023).

• Introduction: Five Hundred Years of World-Gothic Rebecca Duncan and Rebekah Cumpsty; Part I. Gothic in the World: (Re)Conceptualisations; 1. The undead's capitalist world-system Stephen Shapiro; 2. Whiteness and the 'Western' Gothic tradition Rebecca Duncan and Johan Höglund; 3. Gothic and Labour: metabolic, reproductive, international Esthie Hugo; Part II. World-Monsters: Global Transmissions and Genealogies; 4. Pre-colonial Gothic and the Windigo Krista Collier-Jarvis; 5. Hauntings: African-based spirituality in world-Gothic literature James Mellis; 6. Vampiric exhaustion and extractive form: the Mozambican miner Thomas Waller; 7. Subversive sorcery and reparative witchcraft: Huesera's challenges to coloniality Valeria Villegas Lindvall; Part III. Worlding Gothic Theory: 8. World-Gothic and the sublime Jana M. Giles; 9. A planetary grotesque Rune Graulund;10. Uncanny animism: reframing the world-Gothic with Amos Tutuola Ryan Topper; 11. Abject/Abhuman/Human: provincializing world-Gothic monstrosity Rebekah Cumpsty; Part IV. World-Gothic: transregional comparisons; 12. Gothic inheritances in Oceania: problems of origins and ownership Caitlin Vandertop; 13. Tough oil Gothic: contemporary petrofiction across the North-South divide Karl Emil Rosenbæk Reetz; 14. Scheherazade and Bluebeard: the world-Gothic and bloody chambers in Arab women's writing Roxanne Douglas; 15. Coda: catachresis and the politics of Gothic naming Rebekah Cumpsty and Rebecca Duncan.