Gothic Animals

Ruth Heholt is a senior lecturer in English at Falmouth University. She has published widely on the topics of the Gothic, crime, gender and the supernatural. She is currently completing a monograph on the Victorian writer Catherine Crowe and is editor of the journal Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural. Melissa Edmundson is a lecturer in English at Clemson University and specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century women writers and supernatural fiction. She is the author of Women’s Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain (University of Wales Press, 2013) and Women’s Colonial Gothic Writing, 1850-1930: Haunted Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. Hell-Beasts and Haunting.- Chapter 2. ‘Like a Madd Dogge’: Demonic Animals and Animal Demoniacs in Early Modern English Possession Narratives.- Chapter 3. ‘Most Hideous of Gaolers’: The Spider in Ernest G. Henham’s Tenebrae.- Chapter 4. Devouring the Animal Within: Uncanny Otherness in Richard Adams’s Plague Dogs.- Chapter 5. Hunted, Now Haunting: The Figure of the Thylacine in Tasmanian Gothic Fiction.- Chapter 6. ‘What Do I Use to Make Them Afraid?’: The Gothic Animal and the Problem of Legitimacy in American Superhero Comics.- Chapter 7. The Monster Shark Still Lives: The Lazarus Taxon and Spectral Animal Bodies.- Chapter 8. ‘Rats is Bogies I Tell You, and Bogies is Rats’: Rats, Repression, and the Gothic Mode.- Chapter 9. At Home with Miniature Sea-monsters: Philip Henry Gosse.- Chapter 10. Uncanny Snails: Patricia Highsmith and the Allure of the Gastropod.- Chapter 11. ‘I Have Flyophobia’: Jane Rice’s ‘The Idol of the Flies’ and Evil as Unwelcome Houseguest.- Chapter 12. ‘Encircled by Minute, Evilly-Intentioned Airplanes’: The Uncanny Biopolitics of Robotic Bees.- Part III. Cultural Anxiety, Violence, and the Non-Human Body.- Chapter 13. A Bark and Stormy Night: Ann Radcliffe’s Animals.- Chapter 14. Hellish Horses and Monstrous Men: Gothic Horsemanship in Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe.- Chapter 15. The Colonial Idol, the Animalistic, and the New Woman in the Imperial Gothic of Richard Marsh.- Chapter 16. Victor Hugo’s Pieuvre and the Marine EcoGothic.- Chapter 17. The Human Within and the Animal Without?: Rats and Mr Bunnsy in Terry Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents.- Chapter 18. Companion Animals in Contemporary Scottish Women’s Gothic.