Table of Contents

Introduction
The Frame of Reference: Theoretical Debates on Horror, Terror and Fear
Part I: Darkness
Introduction
1. Dark Places
2. Dark Times
3. Dark Psyches
Part II: Haunting
Introduction
4. The Rhetoric of Haunting
5. Spectral Forms
6. Haunting Settings
Part III: Narative and the Self
Introduction
7. Words and Visions
8. Textual Identities
9. Storytelling as Therapy
Part IV: Child and Adult
Introduction
10. Families
11. The Abandoned Child
12. Childhood and Otherness
Part V: Monstrosity
Introduction
13. Vampires
14. Hybrid and Grotesque Bodies
15. The Abject
Epilogue

About the Author

Dani Cavallaro is a freelance writer specializing in literary studies, critical and cultural theory and the visual arts. Her publications include The Gothic Vision, Critical and Cultural Theory and Cyberpunk and Cyberculture.

Reviews

"A thorough, well-written overview of Gothic literature from the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764) to the present (Stephen King, Anne Rice, Patrick McGrath)....I would use it as a compulsory text for undergraduates."--Anne Williams, Professor of English, University of Georgia

"...a readable, intriguing narrative... Cavallaro deploys a variety of critical theories, on the whole judiciously selecting the approach that seems well suited to the work under discussion."- Robert F. Geary, International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Summer 2006, 17.2
*International Association for the Fantastic Arts*