Timothy C. Baker is Lecturer in Scottish Literature at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community (2009), and has published extensively on Scottish and American literature.

"Baker's new text Contemporary Scottish Gothic: Mourning, Authenticity, Tradition stands as the first booklength critical study of contemporary Scottish Gothic fiction and serves to nourish this otherwise barren critical landscape." - The Gothic Imagination, 2015

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Borderlines: Contemporary Scottish Gothic 1. A Scott-Haunted World 2. Authentic Inauthenticity: The Found Manuscript 3. Fantastic Islands 4. Metamorphosis: Humans and Animals 5. Northern Communities Notes Bibliography

Timothy C. Baker is Lecturer in Scottish Literature at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community (2009), and has published extensively on Scottish and American literature.

"Baker's new text Contemporary Scottish Gothic: Mourning, Authenticity, Tradition stands as the first booklength critical study of contemporary Scottish Gothic fiction and serves to nourish this otherwise barren critical landscape." - The Gothic Imagination, 2015

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Borderlines: Contemporary Scottish Gothic 1. A Scott-Haunted World 2. Authentic Inauthenticity: The Found Manuscript 3. Fantastic Islands 4. Metamorphosis: Humans and Animals 5. Northern Communities Notes Bibliography