Sian MacArthur is an independent academic and researcher with literary interests in Gothic and science fiction, and historical interests in the Cold War. She is the author of Crime and the Gothic: Identifying the Gothic Footprint in Modern Crime Fiction (2011) and Gothic Science Fiction: 1818 to the Present (Palgrave 2015), and Re-defining the Gothic with Mo Haydar in The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic.

• Chapter 1: ‘It’s a game of dog eat dog’ - Discontent and Disintegration in American Pulp Fiction.- Chapter 2: ‘The name’s Bond. James Bond’– The Rise of the Spy Novel in British Literature.- Chapter 3: ‘The man who looked both East and West.’ - The Double Agent at Work.- Chapter 4: ‘The greatest weapon on earth’ - Games of Power and Propaganda.- Chapter 5: ‘A world of shadows and suspicions’- The Psychology of Paranoia.- Chapter 6: ‘So we’re not enemies?’– The End of the Cold War.- Chapter 7: ‘A perpetual state of war.’ – Legacies and Lasting Impressions.