Clive Bloom is Professor in Residence at Hull University, Emeritus Professor at Middlesex University, UK, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Western Timisoara, Romania. A feature writer for The Financial Times, The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Irish Times and the London Evening Standard, he is the author of many books on topics from literature to politics, including the London political histories Violent City (2003) and Riot City (2012). An editor of series on crime and the Gothic for multiple publishers and an international key-note speaker, Bloom has won a Bram Stoker Award, been shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award and curated exhibitions on Jack the Ripper and the Siege of Sidney Street for the Museum of London.

In this exuberant and joyously morbid book, full of generous and juicy quotations, he [Bloom] explores the cultural persistence of Gothic on both sides of the Atlantic. His historical approach interweaves literary, political and cultural analysis with brief biographies documenting all manner of bizarre behaviour. The result is a broad, international and rich consideration of cruelty, violence, torture, misery, decadence, pain, pollution, corruption and decay. Cue the dungeons, prisons, monsters, corpses and banditti! ... Introducing new ideas and synthesising a good deal of scholarship, this colourful survey of the inception and development of Gothic is accessible, fun and over the top.

• Acknowledgements 1.Now Welcome the Night: The Origins of Gothic Culture 2. Every True Goth: From Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill to Thomas De Quincey' Opium Dreams 3. With Raven Wings: Ann Radcliffe, German Horrors ands the Divine Marquis4. Land of Shadows: Melmoth the Wanderer and Sweeney Todd 5. Dark Reflections in a Dull Mirror: Fuseli's 'The Nightmare' and the Origins of Gothic Theatre 6. Desire and Loathing Strangely Mixed: Gothic Melodrama and The Phantom of the Opera 7. Do You See It? The Gothic and the Ghostly 8. It's Alive: The Rise of the Gothic Movie 9. After Midnight: Goth Culture, Vampire Games and the Irresistible Rise of Twilight Further Selected Readings in the GothicIndex

Clive Bloom is Professor in Residence at Hull University, Emeritus Professor at Middlesex University, UK, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Western Timisoara, Romania. A feature writer for The Financial Times, The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Irish Times and the London Evening Standard, he is the author of many books on topics from literature to politics, including the London political histories Violent City (2003) and Riot City (2012). An editor of series on crime and the Gothic for multiple publishers and an international key-note speaker, Bloom has won a Bram Stoker Award, been shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award and curated exhibitions on Jack the Ripper and the Siege of Sidney Street for the Museum of London.

In this exuberant and joyously morbid book, full of generous and juicy quotations, he [Bloom] explores the cultural persistence of Gothic on both sides of the Atlantic. His historical approach interweaves literary, political and cultural analysis with brief biographies documenting all manner of bizarre behaviour. The result is a broad, international and rich consideration of cruelty, violence, torture, misery, decadence, pain, pollution, corruption and decay. Cue the dungeons, prisons, monsters, corpses and banditti! ... Introducing new ideas and synthesising a good deal of scholarship, this colourful survey of the inception and development of Gothic is accessible, fun and over the top.

• Acknowledgements 1.Now Welcome the Night: The Origins of Gothic Culture 2. Every True Goth: From Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill to Thomas De Quincey' Opium Dreams 3. With Raven Wings: Ann Radcliffe, German Horrors ands the Divine Marquis4. Land of Shadows: Melmoth the Wanderer and Sweeney Todd 5. Dark Reflections in a Dull Mirror: Fuseli's 'The Nightmare' and the Origins of Gothic Theatre 6. Desire and Loathing Strangely Mixed: Gothic Melodrama and The Phantom of the Opera 7. Do You See It? The Gothic and the Ghostly 8. It's Alive: The Rise of the Gothic Movie 9. After Midnight: Goth Culture, Vampire Games and the Irresistible Rise of Twilight Further Selected Readings in the GothicIndex

Clive Bloom is Professor in Residence at Hull University, Emeritus Professor at Middlesex University, UK, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Western Timisoara, Romania. A feature writer for The Financial Times, The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Irish Times and the London Evening Standard, he is the author of many books on topics from literature to politics, including the London political histories Violent City (2003) and Riot City (2012). An editor of series on crime and the Gothic for multiple publishers and an international key-note speaker, Bloom has won a Bram Stoker Award, been shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award and curated exhibitions on Jack the Ripper and the Siege of Sidney Street for the Museum of London.

In this exuberant and joyously morbid book, full of generous and juicy quotations, he [Bloom] explores the cultural persistence of Gothic on both sides of the Atlantic. His historical approach interweaves literary, political and cultural analysis with brief biographies documenting all manner of bizarre behaviour. The result is a broad, international and rich consideration of cruelty, violence, torture, misery, decadence, pain, pollution, corruption and decay. Cue the dungeons, prisons, monsters, corpses and banditti! ... Introducing new ideas and synthesising a good deal of scholarship, this colourful survey of the inception and development of Gothic is accessible, fun and over the top.

• Acknowledgements 1.Now Welcome the Night: The Origins of Gothic Culture 2. Every True Goth: From Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill to Thomas De Quincey' Opium Dreams 3. With Raven Wings: Ann Radcliffe, German Horrors ands the Divine Marquis4. Land of Shadows: Melmoth the Wanderer and Sweeney Todd 5. Dark Reflections in a Dull Mirror: Fuseli's 'The Nightmare' and the Origins of Gothic Theatre 6. Desire and Loathing Strangely Mixed: Gothic Melodrama and The Phantom of the Opera 7. Do You See It? The Gothic and the Ghostly 8. It's Alive: The Rise of the Gothic Movie 9. After Midnight: Goth Culture, Vampire Games and the Irresistible Rise of Twilight Further Selected Readings in the GothicIndex