Clive Bloom is Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Middlesex University. He has written many books on popular culture, cultural history and literary criticism, regularly appears on radio and television and contributes to a number of national newspapers.

'Bloom's episodic and anecdotal style do not only make these accounts fresh and enlightening, but also fun to read and accessible...Bloom's new addition to the canon makes for that very rare breed of scholarly work: thoroughly entertaining and informative academic writing.'

• 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 Marquis; 4. 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 Gothic; Index.

Clive Bloom is Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Middlesex University. He has written many books on popular culture, cultural history and literary criticism, regularly appears on radio and television and contributes to a number of national newspapers.

'Bloom's episodic and anecdotal style do not only make these accounts fresh and enlightening, but also fun to read and accessible...Bloom's new addition to the canon makes for that very rare breed of scholarly work: thoroughly entertaining and informative academic writing.'

• 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 Marquis; 4. 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 Gothic; Index.

Clive Bloom is Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Middlesex University. He has written many books on popular culture, cultural history and literary criticism, regularly appears on radio and television and contributes to a number of national newspapers.

'Bloom's episodic and anecdotal style do not only make these accounts fresh and enlightening, but also fun to read and accessible...Bloom's new addition to the canon makes for that very rare breed of scholarly work: thoroughly entertaining and informative academic writing.'

• 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 Marquis; 4. 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 Gothic; Index.