Cover -- Contents -- Editors' Preface -- CHAPTER ONE The Gothic Canon: Contexts, Features, Relationships, Perspectives -- Works cited -- CHAPTER TWO Gothic Castaways: Dreams, Demons and Monsters in Early Modern Desert Island Narratives -- Works cited -- CHAPTER THREE Ambivalence and Ambiguity in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey -- Enter the (anti)heroine -- Bibliomania -- The equivocal suitor -- The (mock) villain -- Works cited -- CHAPTER FOUR A Christmas Carol-Charles Dickens's Ghostly Academy -- The Ghost of Hamlet's Father -- The Ghost of Jacob Marley -- The Ghost of Illumination -- The Ghost of Christmas Present: "A jolly Giant, glorious to see" -- The Final Countdown: The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- CHAPTER FIVE The Undead Queen: Queen Victoria's Afterlife in Gothic Fiction -- Works cited -- CHAPTER SIX First-Person Noir: Murderousness and (Ir)rationality in Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction -- "A normality-challenged teenage eccentric" -- Murderers' novels -- The gory art of murder -- Works cited -- CHAPTER SEVEN Faculty Gothic in the American College Novel of the 1990s -- Works cited -- CHAPTER EIGHT Competing Genres in the English Country House: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters -- Works cited -- CHAPTER NINE Ghosts and Their Stories in Children's Fiction -- Works cited -- CHAPTER TEN In the Bowels of a Gothic Microverse: Delicatessen as a Semiotic Palimpsest -- Works cited -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Gothic Automata and the Kunstkammer Island: The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes by Quay Brothers -- Works cited -- CHAPTER TWELVE The Murder House, or the Archaic Mother in American Horror Story -- Approaching the Bad Place -- Inside the Mother House -- The female abject, or monstrous her-stories -- Still life, or taming the monstrous feminine -- Works cited -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Gothic Videogames -- Gothic and Videogames.

Gothic in Videogames -- Gothic as Videogames -- Works cited -- Video Games -- Index of Names and Titles -- Contributors.