Lunar Gothic

Elana Gomel is an associate professor at the Department of English and American Studies at Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and a fiction writer. She has taught and researched at Princeton, Stanford, University of Hong Kong, and Venice International University. She is the author of six academic books and numerous articles on subjects such as narrative theory, posthumanism, science fiction, Dickens, and Victorian culture. She is author of Bloodscripts: Writing the Violent Subject (2003), Narrative Space and Time: Representing Impossible Topologies in Literature (2014) and Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism: Beyond the Golden Rule (2014), and the editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy (2022).Simon Bacon is an independent scholar based in Poznań, Poland. He has written and edited 25+ books including Becoming Vampire (2017), The Gothic: A Reader (2018), Eco-vampires (2019), The Anthropocene and the Undead (2022), Nosferatu in the 21st Century (2023), 1000 Vampires on Screen (2 volumes, 2023), The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire (2024), and The Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie (forthcoming).

• Chapter 1: Introduction and Recommended Reading.- Chapter 2: “He looks not like the People of the lower Orb”: Behn’s The Emperor of the Moon as Proto-Lunar Gothic.- Chapter 3: Phases of the Moon in Varney the Vampire; or, the Feast of Blood.- Chapter 4: Satire, Science, and Skepticism: Viewing the Lunar Hoaxes of Edgar Allen Poe and Richard Adams Locke as Discourse on Uncertainty in the Antebellum Period.- Chapter 5: When the Full Moon Rises: Masculinities, Aging, and Updating the Lycanthropic Myth in Stephen King’s Cycle of the Werewolf.- Chapter 6: “the terror of the rustics”; or, Witches and Werewolves: Lunar and ecoGothic Monstrosities in Catherine Crowe’s “A Story of a Weir-Wolf” (1846) and The Nightside of Nature (1847).- Chapter 7: Children of the Night’s Light: The Moon as a Structuring Element of Vampire Fiction from Polidori’s The Vampyre to The Twilight Saga.- Chapter 8: Crackle and Drag: Sylvia Plath’s lunar Gothic in “The Moon and the Yew Tree,” “The Rival” and “Edge.”.- Chapter 9: Illuminating the Darkness: Lunar Representation in Children’s Literature.- Chapter 10: The Lunar Poetics of Transformation in “The Yellow Wallpaper”.- Chapter 11: Lunacy: Anxieties on Modernity in Luigi Bazzoni’s Footprints in the Moon.- Chapter 12: The Moon as Mirror in The Hungry Moon, Waking the Moon, and Moondial.- Chapter 13: Lunar Gothic and the Grotesque in Hushang Golshiri’s “The wolf”.- Chapter 14: The Moon in Requiem for a Beast: An Apophasis of Colonial Transgression and Indigenous Suppression.- Chapter 15: Moon, Music, and Melancholia: Gothic Aesthetics in Kuroshitisuji’s Lacrimosa.- Chapter 16: “Blood Moon”: Lunar Monstrous Spaces in Gothic Science Fiction.- Chapter 17: Sterility Across Chasms: Dead Worlds and Technological Imaginations in Meredith Ann Pierces Darkangel Series.