Post-Millennial Gothic

Catherine Spooner is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Lancaster University, UK. She is co-editor (with Emma McEvoy) of The Routledge Companion to Gothic (2007) and author of Contemporary Gothic (2006) and Fashioning Gothic Bodies (2004).

The range of sources that Spooner uses to uncover this strand of Gothic and the work it's doing in the twenty-first century is as impressive as the primary texts that she explores throughout the book.

• Introduction 1. Consuming the Edible Graveyard: Gothic Lifestyles and Lifestyle Gothic 2. 'The images, for me, are the story': Tim Burton's Gothic Aesthetics 3. 'Forget Nu Rave, We're Into Nu Grave!': High Street Style and the uses of Gothic Romance4. Gothic Charm School, or, How Vampires Learned to Sparkle5. Pretty in Black: The Goth Girl and the Whimsical Macabre6. 'Happy Nights Are Here Again': Having a Laugh with Vampires and Other Monsters7. 'I'm the Shoreditch Vampire': Making Over Goth Masculinities in Television Comedy8. 'Swishing about and spookiness': Whitby and Gothic Literary Tourism from Bram Stoker's Dracula to Paul Magrs's Never the BrideConclusion: Gothic CelebrationsWorks citedIndex