Lorna Piatti-Farnell is director of the Popular Culture Research Centre at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.

• IntroductionPart I: Reincarnations and (Re)imaginingsChapter One: Beyond the Barricades: Restaging the Siege Narrative in post-Romero Zombie Film and TV Chapter Two: The Afterlives of Alice: Reanimating the Gothic Heroine in the Resident Evil FranchiseChapter Three: Evil, Reborn: Remaking Disney and the Villain IntertextChapter Four: Untold Draculas: Textual Estrangement, Cinematic Reincarnation, and the Popular Dracula Legend Chapter Five: “Most of you are wondering who the heck I am”: Carmilla (2014-2016, online) as Digital Reimagining of LeFanu’s “Carmilla”Part II: Legacies, Dualities, and HauntingsChapter Six: Remaking Olimpia: Agency and the Gothic Afterlives of ‘Female’ AutomataChapter Seven: Ann Radcliffe’s Legacy and Del Toro’s Crimson Peak (2015)Chapter Eight: Unmade and Remade: Trauma and Modern Adaptations of FrankensteinChapter Nine: Dealing with Dualities: Modern Adaptations of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydePart III: (Re)turns and Re(possessions)Chapter Ten: Remaking Stephen King: Texts and ContextsChapter Eleven: Stranger Things: Remixing Eighties Horror as Posthuman Gothic Chapter Twelve: Mexican Gothic Remakes: Carlos Enrique Taboada’s Films, Possessions, and Double LoopsChapter Thirteen: Tangled Hair and Broken Bodies: Remaking Women and Technology in Japanese Gothic Horror Tradition from The Tale of Genji to RinguChapter Fourteen: “Don’t Fuck with the Original:” Final Girl Impact on the Twenty-First Century Horror Film Industry

This is a varied collection, full of exciting new research from leading scholars in Gothic and Horror Studies, on the Gothic’s continued engagement with the processes of retelling and remediation. Wide-ranging, yet also case-specific, Gothic Afterlives is an essential read for anyone with an interest in how the mode is evolving in an age marked by the preponderance of sequels, prequels, (re-)adaptations, reboots and remakes.

Lorna Piatti-Farnell is director of the Popular Culture Research Centre at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.

• IntroductionPart I: Reincarnations and (Re)imaginingsChapter One: Beyond the Barricades: Restaging the Siege Narrative in post-Romero Zombie Film and TV Chapter Two: The Afterlives of Alice: Reanimating the Gothic Heroine in the Resident Evil FranchiseChapter Three: Evil, Reborn: Remaking Disney and the Villain IntertextChapter Four: Untold Draculas: Textual Estrangement, Cinematic Reincarnation, and the Popular Dracula Legend Chapter Five: “Most of you are wondering who the heck I am”: Carmilla (2014-2016, online) as Digital Reimagining of LeFanu’s “Carmilla”Part II: Legacies, Dualities, and HauntingsChapter Six: Remaking Olimpia: Agency and the Gothic Afterlives of ‘Female’ AutomataChapter Seven: Ann Radcliffe’s Legacy and Del Toro’s Crimson Peak (2015)Chapter Eight: Unmade and Remade: Trauma and Modern Adaptations of FrankensteinChapter Nine: Dealing with Dualities: Modern Adaptations of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydePart III: (Re)turns and Re(possessions)Chapter Ten: Remaking Stephen King: Texts and ContextsChapter Eleven: Stranger Things: Remixing Eighties Horror as Posthuman Gothic Chapter Twelve: Mexican Gothic Remakes: Carlos Enrique Taboada’s Films, Possessions, and Double LoopsChapter Thirteen: Tangled Hair and Broken Bodies: Remaking Women and Technology in Japanese Gothic Horror Tradition from The Tale of Genji to RinguChapter Fourteen: “Don’t Fuck with the Original:” Final Girl Impact on the Twenty-First Century Horror Film Industry

This is a varied collection, full of exciting new research from leading scholars in Gothic and Horror Studies, on the Gothic’s continued engagement with the processes of retelling and remediation. Wide-ranging, yet also case-specific, Gothic Afterlives is an essential read for anyone with an interest in how the mode is evolving in an age marked by the preponderance of sequels, prequels, (re-)adaptations, reboots and remakes.

Lorna Piatti-Farnell is director of the Popular Culture Research Centre at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.

• IntroductionPart I: Reincarnations and (Re)imaginingsChapter One: Beyond the Barricades: Restaging the Siege Narrative in post-Romero Zombie Film and TV Chapter Two: The Afterlives of Alice: Reanimating the Gothic Heroine in the Resident Evil FranchiseChapter Three: Evil, Reborn: Remaking Disney and the Villain IntertextChapter Four: Untold Draculas: Textual Estrangement, Cinematic Reincarnation, and the Popular Dracula Legend Chapter Five: “Most of you are wondering who the heck I am”: Carmilla (2014-2016, online) as Digital Reimagining of LeFanu’s “Carmilla”Part II: Legacies, Dualities, and HauntingsChapter Six: Remaking Olimpia: Agency and the Gothic Afterlives of ‘Female’ AutomataChapter Seven: Ann Radcliffe’s Legacy and Del Toro’s Crimson Peak (2015)Chapter Eight: Unmade and Remade: Trauma and Modern Adaptations of FrankensteinChapter Nine: Dealing with Dualities: Modern Adaptations of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydePart III: (Re)turns and Re(possessions)Chapter Ten: Remaking Stephen King: Texts and ContextsChapter Eleven: Stranger Things: Remixing Eighties Horror as Posthuman Gothic Chapter Twelve: Mexican Gothic Remakes: Carlos Enrique Taboada’s Films, Possessions, and Double LoopsChapter Thirteen: Tangled Hair and Broken Bodies: Remaking Women and Technology in Japanese Gothic Horror Tradition from The Tale of Genji to RinguChapter Fourteen: “Don’t Fuck with the Original:” Final Girl Impact on the Twenty-First Century Horror Film Industry

This is a varied collection, full of exciting new research from leading scholars in Gothic and Horror Studies, on the Gothic’s continued engagement with the processes of retelling and remediation. Wide-ranging, yet also case-specific, Gothic Afterlives is an essential read for anyone with an interest in how the mode is evolving in an age marked by the preponderance of sequels, prequels, (re-)adaptations, reboots and remakes.