Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Preface to the 1982 edition -- Part One -- Chapter 1: Formation, Deformation, and Reformation -- 1. Betweeen Nullity and Justice -- 2. The Grotesque as Interval -- 3. Interpretation and Deformation -- Chapter 2: Grotesque and Grottesche -- 1. Excavating the Origins -- 2. Margins and Centers -- 3. Transfigurations -- Chapter 3: Grotesque and Grotto-esque -- 1. Ornament and Atavism -- 2. Myth, Metaphor, and Mediation -- 3. Dirt, Disorder, and Divinity -- 4. The Art of the Grotto -- 5. Myth out of the Grotto -- 6. Dissonance, "Reality," and the Tradition -- Part Two -- Chapter 4: Walking on Silernce: The Lamination of Narratives in Wuthering Heights -- Chapter 5: Permeability and the Grotesque:"The Masque of the Red Death" -- Chapter 6: Metaphor, Marginality, and Parody inDeath in Venice -- Chapter 7: To Make You Sea: Conrad's Primal Words -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Doodles, Dragons, Dissonance, and Discovery -- Notes -- Index.