Contents -- Preface -- One: White Dog, the Prequel: Between Imagination and Belief -- Two: Faux Catholic: A Gothick Genealogy from Monk Lewis to Dan Brown -- Three: Gothick God: The Worshipful World of Horror Fandom -- Four: Decommissioning Satan: In Favor of His Man-God Whelps -- Five: Gothick Romance: The Danse Macabre of Women -- Six: The Bright God Beckons: The New Vampire Romance -- Seven: Postapocalyptic Gothick: That Means Zombies (and the Occasional Zampire) -- Eight: The Gothick Theater of Halloween: Performing Allegor -- Nine: The Ten Rules of Sitges: Global Gothick Horror and Beyond -- Ten: Cathedral Head: The Gothick Cosmos of Guillermo del Toro -- Eleven: The New Christian Gothick: The Shack and Other Cathedrals -- Twelve: Epilogue: Questions without Answers -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.