Gothic

Roger Luckhurst is the author of The Invention of Telepathy, 1870–1901 (2002), The Mummy’s Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy (2012), and Zombies: A Cultural History (2015), and has edited several classic Gothic novels by Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson and H. P. Lovecraft. He is the Geoffrey Tillotson Professor of Nineteenth Century Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London.

• Introduction I. Architecture & FormThe Pointed Arch • Ruins • Fragment • Labyrinth • The House II. The Lie of the LandThe Country & The City • Village • Forest • Wilderness • Edgelands III. The Gothic CompassNorth • South • East • West • Planetary & Cosmic Horror IV. MonstersScale • Splices • The Tentacle • Formless • Us Further Reading

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