‘With 60 luscious black and white illustrations, Gothic Effigy is a real feast for the eyes as well as a stimulating and encyclopaedic intervention in Gothic Studies. The book takes its readers on an ambitious journey through the various histories of Gothic visual media, most of which have only peripherally been the subject of academic attention. Bringing together traditional architecture, sculpture and painting with more modern artistic and ludic ephemera like jewellery, Halloween hayrides and graffiti, David Annwn Jones’s new book proves to be original, erudite, approachable and necessary. Nothing short of an instant classic.’Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes, Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University