The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic

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Clive Bloom is Emeritus Professor at Middlesex University, UK. He has written numerous books on popular literature, gothic fiction, history and politics. He is a broadcaster and occasional journalist who has been quoted in both the Washington Post and Pravda and has an entry in the Columbia Book of World Quotations.

Acknowledgements.- Clive Bloom: Introduction to the Volume: Welcome to Hell.- 1: Global Gothics.- Ines Ordiz & Sandra Casanova.- Vizcaino: Latin American Horror.- Joan Passey: Dark Tourism.- Antonio Alcala Gonzalez: Twentieth Century Mexican Gothic Literature.-  Tijana Parezanovic and Marko Lukic: Dark Urbanity.- Jessica Gildersleeve:  Contemporary Australian Trauma.- Gina Wisker: Gothic Postcolonialisms.- Naomi Simone Borwein: Strains of the South.- Angela Elisa Schoch/Davidson: Indigenous Alterations.- Tosha R Taylor: Hillbilly Horror.- Gerry Del Guercio: Southern Agrarianism and Exploitation.- 2: Hostile Environments.- Lauren Stephenson: The Male Body in British 'Hoodie' Horror.- David Annwn Jones: Green Trends in Euro-horror Films of the 1960s and 1970s.- Emily Alder and Jenny Bavidge:  Ecocriticism and the Gothic Genre.- Kaja Franck : The Wilderness.- Paulina Palmer: 'Queer' Representations of Rural and Urban Locations.- 3: Occult Gothic.- James Machin: Making Occult Meaning.- Timothy Jones:  The Black Magic Story.- 4: Dark Romance.- Holly Hirst: Twentieth Century Gothic Romance.- Holly Hirst: Georgette Heyer.- 5: The Body in Pieces.-  Xavier Aldana Reyes:  Abjection and Body Horror.- Tosha R Taylor: Torture Porn.- 6: Psychological Gothic.- Laura R. Kremmel: The Gothic Asylum.- Lauren Christie: Psychopaths, Sociopaths and the Psychotic Mind.- Bob Shepherd: Beyond the Unfeeling Narcissus to Patrick Bateman.- 7: Post Human Gothic.- Naomi Borwein: Global War from Tokyo to Barcelona.- Holly-Gale Millette: The Posthuman Interstellar Gothic Genre.- Antonio Alcala Gonzalez: Degeneration in H. P. Lovecraft and William Hope Hodgson.- James Machin: Lovecraft, Decadence, and Aestheticism.- 8: Zombie Gothic.- Kelly Gardner : Zombie Folklore to Existential Protagonists.- Kelly Gardner : The Sentient Zombie.- 9:  New Vampire Gothic.- Simon Bacon: Transmedia Vampires.- Simon Bacon: The Post-human Vampire.- Laura Davidel: Monstrosity, Performativity and Performance.- 10.  Gothic Film.- Laura Sedgwick: Ghostly Gimmicks: Spectral Special Effects in Haunted House Films.- Brian Jarvis: Universal Horror.- Stacey Abbott: Arthouse Gothic Cinema.- Tanja Jurkovic:  The Horror Genre in Balkan Cinema.- Agnieszka Kotwasinska: The Gothic in Slavic Cinema.- Joana Rita Ramalho: Gothic Gender Politics in a High-Camp, Lowbrow Musical.- Murray Leeder: Roger Corman.- Brian Jarvis: David Lynch.- 11. Gothic Television.- J S Mackley: Doctor Who: Identity, Time and Terror.- J S Mackley Nigel Kneale and Quatermass.- Stephanie Mulholland:  Dark Costume in Contemporary Television.- Chelsea Eddy: Wildlings, White Walkers, and Watchers on the Wall of  Northumberland's  Borderland.- Tanja Jurkovic:  Contemporary Grand Guignol.- 12. Gothic Music.- Joana Rita Ramalho:  The Blasphemous Grotesqueries of The Tiger Lillies.- Antonio Alcalá González:  The Return of the Past in Black Metal Lyrics.- 13. Interactive Gothic.- Jen Baker: Interactive and Movable Books in the Tradition.- Jon Garrad: The Evolving Genre of the Vampire Games.- Erika Kvistad: The Digital Haunted House.- David Langdon:  Anxiety in the Digital Age.- Tosha R Taylor: Horror Memes and Digital Culture.- Alison Bainbridge : Virtual Desert Horrors.- Madelon Hoedt:   Immersive and Pervasive Performance.- 14. Gothic Lifestyle.- Victoria Amador: Fashion Gothwear.- Alex Bevan:  Walking with the Lancashire Witches.- Jennifer Richards: The Influence of the Gothic in High Fashion.- Jenevieve Van-Veda: The Geisha Ghost.- 15. Young Gothic.- Chloe Buckley: Encounters with the "hidden" world in Modern Children's Fiction.- Michelle Smith & Kristine Moruzi: Gender and Sexuality in Young Adult Fiction.- Julia Round: Horror Hosts in British Girls' Comics.- Valeria Iglesias: Lemony Snicket.- 16. Gothic Auteurs.- Simon Brown:  James Herbert's Working Class Horror.- Mark Richard Adams: Clive Barker's Hellraiser.- Sian MacArthur: Re-defining the Gothic Genre with Mo Hayder.- Brian Jarvis: Stephen King.- 17. Theoretical Gothic.- Giles Whiteley: Three French Modernists.- Matt Foley: Dark Modernisms.- 18.  Post Modern Gothic.- Joakim Wrethed: The Postmodern Genre.- Marko Lukic and Tijana Parezanovic: Heterotopian Horrors.- Michail-Chrysovalantis Markodimitrakis: The New Batman.-  List of Contributors to the Volume.- Index.

"The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic is an impressive ... tome. ... My list of media to consume has grown significantly and I anticipate returning to the essays in this collection regularly; useful to scholars of the gothic, many of these essays would also be accessible to undergraduate students, including non-majors, in film, literature, and cultural studies classes." (Leah Richards, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Vol. 31 (3), 2020)

“The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic is an impressive … tome. … My list of media to consume has grown significantly and I anticipate returning to the essays in this collection regularly; useful to scholars of the gothic, many of these essays would also be accessible to undergraduate students, including non-majors, in film, literature, and cultural studies classes.” (Leah Richards, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Vol. 31 (3), 2020)