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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.