Table Of ContentThe Palgrave Handbook
of Contemporary Gothic
Edited by
Clive Bloom
The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic
Clive Bloom
Editor
The Palgrave Handbook
of Contemporary Gothic
Editor
Clive Bloom
Ilford, UK
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He grappled with a hostile atmosphere that surrounded him
with menaces. There came the echo of distant baying, growing
louder, reverberating through the empty halls, filling his ears.
Stricken with horror, he dashed out as fast as he could.
—Guy Endore, The Werewolf of Paris (1934)
Acknowledgements
The editor would like to thank Lesley Kacher for her help and assistance in organ-
ising the manuscript, Ellie Henderson, Emily Wood, Lina Aboujieb, Aishwarya
Balachandar and the Production team at Palgrave and the members of the
International Gothic Association who all helped to make this volume possible.
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Permissions
The editor wishes to thank the following for permission to quote from their work:
Dame Carol Anne Duffy for permission to quote from The Lancashire Witches
(2012) ‘One voice for ten dragged this way once’, ‘Superstition’, ‘Ignorance’,
‘Crone’, ‘On the wind’s breath, curse of crow and rook’, ‘Landscape’, and ‘The
same old witness moon’ in Alex Bevan, ‘Walking with the Lancashire Witches’;
Martyn Jaques of Tiger Lillies copyright Misery Guts Music Ltd in Joana Rita
Ramalho, ‘The Tiger Lillies’; Rebellion Publishing IP Ltd for images from June
and School Friend, Jinty, Tammy and Misty in Julia Round, ‘Horror Hosts in
British Girls’ Comics’.
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Contents
Introduction to the Gothic Handbook Series: Welcome to Hell ......... 1
Clive Bloom
Global Gothics
Latin American Horror ......................................... 31
Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno and Inés Ordiz
Dark Tourism ................................................. 49
Joan Passey
Two Twentieth-Century Mexican Writers .......................... 63
Antonio Alcalá González
Dark Urbanity ................................................. 77
Tijana Parezanović and Marko Lukić
Contemporary Australian Trauma ................................ 91
Jessica Gildersleeve
Postcolonialisms ............................................... 105
Gina Wisker
Strains of the South ............................................. 123
Naomi Simone Borwein
Indigenous Alterations .......................................... 143
Angela Elisa Schoch/Davidson
Hillbilly Horror ................................................ 163
Tosha R. Taylor
Southern Agrarianism and Exploitation ............................ 181
Gerardo Del Guercio
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Hostile Environments
British ‘Hoodie’ Horror ......................................... 193
Lauren Stephenson
Green Trends in Euro-Horror Films of the 1960s and 1970s ........... 211
David Annwn Jones
Ecocriticism and the Genre ...................................... 225
Emily Alder and Jenny Bavidge
The Wilderness ................................................ 243
Kaja Franck
‘Queer’ Representations of Rural and Urban Locations .............. 259
Paulina Palmer
James Herbert’s Working-Class Horror ........................... 275
Simon Brown
Re-defining the Genre with Mo Hayder ............................ 291
Sian MacArthur
Stephen King .................................................. 303
Brian Jarvis
Occult Gothic
Aleister Crowley and Occult Meaning ............................. 321
James Machin
Aleister Crowley and the Black Magic Story ........................ 337
Timothy Jones
Gothic Romance
The Gothic Romance ........................................... 357
Holly Hirst
Georgette Heyer ............................................... 373
Holly Hirst
The Body in Pieces
Abjection and Body Horror ...................................... 393
Xavier Aldana Reyes
Torture Porn .................................................. 411
Tosha R. Taylor
Clive Barker’s Hellraiser ........................................ 431
Mark Richard Adams
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Psychological Gothic
The Asylum ................................................... 449
Laura R. Kremmel
Psychopaths, Sociopaths and the Psychotic Mind .................... 467
Lauren Ellis Christie
Beyond the Unfeeling Narcissus to Patrick Bateman ................. 485
Robert K. Shepherd
Zombie Gothic
Zombie Folklore to Existential Protagonists ........................ 505
Kelly Gardner
The Sentient Zombie ............................................ 521
Kelly Gardner
New Vampire Gothic
Transmedia Vampires ........................................... 541
Simon Bacon
The Post-human Vampire ........................................ 555
Simon Bacon
Monstrosity, Performativity, and Performance ...................... 569
Laura Davidel
Young Gothic
Encounters with the ‘Hidden’ World in Modern Children’s Fiction ..... 589
Chloé Germaine Buckley
Gender and Sexuality in Young Adult Fiction ....................... 609
Michelle J. Smith and Kristine Moruzi
Horror Hosts in British Girls’ Comics ............................. 623
Julia Round
Lemony Snicket ................................................ 643
Valeria Iglesias-Plester
Gothic Film
Ghostly Gimmicks: Spectral Special Effects in Haunted House Films ... 661
Laura Sedgwick
Universal Horror ................................................ 679
Brian Jarvis
