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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Chronology of Significant Landmarks in Horror and Gothic Fiction | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Gothic Whispers | |
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| Extract from Of the Sublime | |
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| The Castle of Otranto, Preface to 1764 edition | |
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| The Castle of Otranto, Preface to second edition | |
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| Advertisement to The Monk | |
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| Extract from On 'The Monk' | |
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| Extract from The Italian | |
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| Extract from Discourse 1: 'Gothick' | |
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| Frankenstein, Preface to 1817 edition | |
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| Frankenstein, Preface to 1831 edition | |
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| Remarks on Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus | |
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| Extract from Northanger Abbey | |
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| Extract from Nightmare Abbey | |
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| Melmoth, the Wanderer, Preface to 1820 edition | |
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| On the Supernatural in Poetry | |
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| Horror The Soul Of The Plot | |
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| Extract from The Man of the Crowd | |
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| Extract from The Imp of the Perverse | |
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| The Philosophy of Composition | |
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| Extract from Eureka | |
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| Extract from Marginalia | |
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| Preface to The House of the Seven Gables | |
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| Extract from The Renaissance | |
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| Extract from Nightmare | |
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| Touch | |
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| An Autobiographical Postscript | |
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| In The Dark | |
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| Extract from The Uncanny | |
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| On Algernon Blackwood | |
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| Preface to The Collected Ghost Stories | |
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| Extract from The Supernatural in Literature | |
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| Extract from The Vampire in Literature | |
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| I like Playing Dracula | |
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| Author's Note from The Devil Rides Out | |
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| Gothic Hangover | |
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| Fearmakers | |
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| On Horror Writers | |
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| Dracula, Frankenstine, Sons and Co | |
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| Symposium on H P Lovecraft | |
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| Extract from Interview for Playboy | |
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| Extract from An Evening at Billericay Public Library | |
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| On Stephen King | |
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| On Horror and Subversion | |
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| Contemporary Shivers | |
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| Terrorism and the Gothic | |
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| Extract from The Fantastic | |
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| Monster Culture | |
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| Extract from Freakery | |
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| The Body of Frankenstein's Monster | |
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| Narrative Structure, Liminality, Self Similarity: The Case of Gothic Fiction | |
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| Horror Narratives | |
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| African American and Afro Caribbean Women's Horror as Contemporary Cultural Critique | |
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| All Dark Inside: Zombies and Detectives | |
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| Epilogue: Further Thoughts on the Gothic | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index | |