Anna Jackson is an Associate Professor in English Literature at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

• Contents Introduction ‘Do Panic. They’re Coming:’ Remaking the Weird in contemporary children’s fiction Chloe Buckley Cuckoo Songs: The Changeling as HeroGeoffrey Miles ‘These are troubling, confusing times’: Darren Shan’s Cirque du Freak as Post-9/11 GothicPhilip Serrato Figuring the Witch.David Punter Ghostly Vestiges of Strange Tales: Horror, History and the Haunted Chinese ChildYou Chengcheng Girls in Lace Dresses: The Intersections of Gothic in Japanese Youth Fiction and FashionEmerald L. King and Lucy Fraser The Gothic in Oceania Erin Mercer ‘The Gothic is part of history, just as history is part of the Gothic’: Gothicising History and Historicising the Gothic in Celia Rees' Young Adult FictionCatherine Spooner Adolescent Angels and Demons: The Religious Imagination in Young Adult Gothic LiteratureRebecca Wigginton ‘Mind to Mind’: The Gothic Loss of Privacy in the Twilight Saga and Chaos Walking TrilogyAlexandra Valint ‘THIS HILL IS STILL DANGEROUS’: Alan Garner’s Weirdstone Trilogy – A HauntologyTimothy Jones

Anna Jackson is an Associate Professor in English Literature at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

• Contents Introduction ‘Do Panic. They’re Coming:’ Remaking the Weird in contemporary children’s fiction Chloe Buckley Cuckoo Songs: The Changeling as HeroGeoffrey Miles ‘These are troubling, confusing times’: Darren Shan’s Cirque du Freak as Post-9/11 GothicPhilip Serrato Figuring the Witch.David Punter Ghostly Vestiges of Strange Tales: Horror, History and the Haunted Chinese ChildYou Chengcheng Girls in Lace Dresses: The Intersections of Gothic in Japanese Youth Fiction and FashionEmerald L. King and Lucy Fraser The Gothic in Oceania Erin Mercer ‘The Gothic is part of history, just as history is part of the Gothic’: Gothicising History and Historicising the Gothic in Celia Rees' Young Adult FictionCatherine Spooner Adolescent Angels and Demons: The Religious Imagination in Young Adult Gothic LiteratureRebecca Wigginton ‘Mind to Mind’: The Gothic Loss of Privacy in the Twilight Saga and Chaos Walking TrilogyAlexandra Valint ‘THIS HILL IS STILL DANGEROUS’: Alan Garner’s Weirdstone Trilogy – A HauntologyTimothy Jones

Anna Jackson is an Associate Professor in English Literature at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

• Contents Introduction ‘Do Panic. They’re Coming:’ Remaking the Weird in contemporary children’s fiction Chloe Buckley Cuckoo Songs: The Changeling as HeroGeoffrey Miles ‘These are troubling, confusing times’: Darren Shan’s Cirque du Freak as Post-9/11 GothicPhilip Serrato Figuring the Witch.David Punter Ghostly Vestiges of Strange Tales: Horror, History and the Haunted Chinese ChildYou Chengcheng Girls in Lace Dresses: The Intersections of Gothic in Japanese Youth Fiction and FashionEmerald L. King and Lucy Fraser The Gothic in Oceania Erin Mercer ‘The Gothic is part of history, just as history is part of the Gothic’: Gothicising History and Historicising the Gothic in Celia Rees' Young Adult FictionCatherine Spooner Adolescent Angels and Demons: The Religious Imagination in Young Adult Gothic LiteratureRebecca Wigginton ‘Mind to Mind’: The Gothic Loss of Privacy in the Twilight Saga and Chaos Walking TrilogyAlexandra Valint ‘THIS HILL IS STILL DANGEROUS’: Alan Garner’s Weirdstone Trilogy – A HauntologyTimothy Jones