Table of Contents:
  • Backgrounds and Contexts
  • Civilization and the Goths
  • Gothic in the Eighteenth Century
  • Gothic and Romantic
  • Science, Industry and the Gothic
  • Victorian Gothic
  • Art and Architecture
  • Gothic and Decadence
  • Imperial Gothic
  • Gothic Postmodernism
  • Postcolonial Gothic
  • Goths and Gothic Subcultures
  • Gothic Film
  • Gothic and the Graphic Novel
  • Writers of Gothic
  • William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882)
  • Jane Austen (1775-1817)
  • J.G. Ballard (1930- )
  • Iain Banks (1954- )
  • John Banville (1945- )
  • Clive Barker (1952- )
  • William Beckford (1760-1844)
  • E.F. Benson (1867-1940)
  • Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
  • Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951)
  • Robert Bloch (1917-1994)
  • Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)
  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915)
  • Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) and Emily Bronte (1818-1848)
  • Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)
  • Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
  • James Branch Cabell (1879-1958)
  • Ramsey Campbell (1946- )
  • Angela Carter (1940-1992)
  • Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933)
  • Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)
  • Marie Corelli (1855-1924)
  • Charlotte Dacre (1771/1772?-1825)
  • Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
  • August Derleth (1909-1971)
  • Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
  • 'Isak Dinesen' (1885-1962)
  • Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
  • Lord Dunsany (1878-1957)
  • Bret Easton Ellis (1964- )
  • William Faulkner (1897-1962)
  • Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865)
  • William Gibson (1948- )
  • William Godwin (1756-1836)
  • H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925)
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864).