Dr. Ardel Haefele-Thomas is the Chair of LGBT Studies at City College of San Francisco. They have published numerous essays on queer and trans Gothic themes including “Gothic, AIDS, and Sexuality, 1981- present” for Cambridge History of the Gothic edited by Catherine Spooner and Dale Townshend (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and “That Dreadful Thing That Looked Like a Beautiful Girl: Trans Anxiety/Trans Possibility in Three Late Victorian Werewolf Tales” for Transgothic in Literature and Culture edited by Jolene Zigarovich (Routledge Press, 2018). Dr. Haefele-Thomas is also the author of Introduction to Transgender Studies (Columbia University Press, 2019) and Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity (University of Wales Press, 2012). They are currently working on a monograph on AIDS Gothic for the University of Wales Press as well as a four volume set of archival, rare, and hard to find nineteenth century British LGBTQI+ materials for Routledge Press. Both projects are forthcoming in 2024.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction to Queer Gothic: 'I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey'Ardel Haefele-ThomasPart I: Queer TimesChapter 1 - Desiring Deformity in the Romantic GothicJeremy ChowChapter 2 - Queer Gothic: Romantic Origins and Victorian InnovationsJolene ZigarovichChapter 3 - Strange Cases of the Queer fin de siècle: Law, Medicine and the Gothic Imaginative ModeJamil MustafaChapter 4 - Gothic Cinema and Sexology in the Weimar Republic: Towards a Queer Gothic Aesthetic on ScreenDennis WegnerChapter 5 -‘Tarting up ideas in costume jewellery’: Contemporary Gothic CampThomas BrassingtonPart II: Queer MonstersChapter 6 - Queer Vampires: What We Want Is In The ShadowsS. Brooke CameronChapter 7 - Queer ZombiesXavier Aldana ReyesChapter 8 - ‘Queer-Wolves and Wolf-Boyz and Were-Bears, Oh My!’: Queering the Wolf in New Queer Horror Film and TVDarren Elliott-SmithChapter 9 - ‘Spectrality is in part a mode of historicity ’: Representations of Spectrality in Queer Historiography and Contemporary FictionPaulina PalmerChapter 10 - Witchcraft, Gender and Queerness in Contemporary British LiteratureSilvia AntosaPart III: Queer FormsChapter 11 - Queer Gothic PoetryClayton Carlyle TarrChapter 12 - Queer Gothic Visual Art: A Twisted Path From The Eighteenth Century To The Twenty-FirstLaura WestengardChapter 13 - Queering Gothic Slash Fandoms: Harry Potter, Ginger Snaps and WorldbuildingGregory Luke ChwalaChapter 14 - Solidarity Is More Than A Slogan: Queer Representation in the Virtual WorldDawn StobbartChapter 15 - ‘Y’all ain’t from around these parts’: Queer Displacement in American Folk HorrorAmanda CruzChapter 16 - This Is What Queer Resistance Looks Like: AIDS Gothic ArtArdel Haefele-ThomasBibliographyFilmographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

This is a book that’s urgently needed, and it doesn’t disappoint. Its sixteen authors provide an up-to-date exploration of queer Gothic, reflecting a rapidly changing theoretical field and ranging widely across the LGBTQ+ spectrum. The result is a rich, riotous feast of ideas, sure to tantalise, provoke and spark new conversations.

Dr. Ardel Haefele-Thomas is the Chair of LGBT Studies at City College of San Francisco. They have published numerous essays on queer and trans Gothic themes including “Gothic, AIDS, and Sexuality, 1981- present” for Cambridge History of the Gothic edited by Catherine Spooner and Dale Townshend (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and “That Dreadful Thing That Looked Like a Beautiful Girl: Trans Anxiety/Trans Possibility in Three Late Victorian Werewolf Tales” for Transgothic in Literature and Culture edited by Jolene Zigarovich (Routledge Press, 2018). Dr. Haefele-Thomas is also the author of Introduction to Transgender Studies (Columbia University Press, 2019) and Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity (University of Wales Press, 2012). They are currently working on a monograph on AIDS Gothic for the University of Wales Press as well as a four volume set of archival, rare, and hard to find nineteenth century British LGBTQI+ materials for Routledge Press. Both projects are forthcoming in 2024.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction to Queer Gothic: 'I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey'Ardel Haefele-ThomasPart I: Queer TimesChapter 1 - Desiring Deformity in the Romantic GothicJeremy ChowChapter 2 - Queer Gothic: Romantic Origins and Victorian InnovationsJolene ZigarovichChapter 3 - Strange Cases of the Queer fin de siècle: Law, Medicine and the Gothic Imaginative ModeJamil MustafaChapter 4 - Gothic Cinema and Sexology in the Weimar Republic: Towards a Queer Gothic Aesthetic on ScreenDennis WegnerChapter 5 -‘Tarting up ideas in costume jewellery’: Contemporary Gothic CampThomas BrassingtonPart II: Queer MonstersChapter 6 - Queer Vampires: What We Want Is In The ShadowsS. Brooke CameronChapter 7 - Queer ZombiesXavier Aldana ReyesChapter 8 - ‘Queer-Wolves and Wolf-Boyz and Were-Bears, Oh My!’: Queering the Wolf in New Queer Horror Film and TVDarren Elliott-SmithChapter 9 - ‘Spectrality is in part a mode of historicity ’: Representations of Spectrality in Queer Historiography and Contemporary FictionPaulina PalmerChapter 10 - Witchcraft, Gender and Queerness in Contemporary British LiteratureSilvia AntosaPart III: Queer FormsChapter 11 - Queer Gothic PoetryClayton Carlyle TarrChapter 12 - Queer Gothic Visual Art: A Twisted Path From The Eighteenth Century To The Twenty-FirstLaura WestengardChapter 13 - Queering Gothic Slash Fandoms: Harry Potter, Ginger Snaps and WorldbuildingGregory Luke ChwalaChapter 14 - Solidarity Is More Than A Slogan: Queer Representation in the Virtual WorldDawn StobbartChapter 15 - ‘Y’all ain’t from around these parts’: Queer Displacement in American Folk HorrorAmanda CruzChapter 16 - This Is What Queer Resistance Looks Like: AIDS Gothic ArtArdel Haefele-ThomasBibliographyFilmographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

This is a book that’s urgently needed, and it doesn’t disappoint. Its sixteen authors provide an up-to-date exploration of queer Gothic, reflecting a rapidly changing theoretical field and ranging widely across the LGBTQ+ spectrum. The result is a rich, riotous feast of ideas, sure to tantalise, provoke and spark new conversations.

Dr. Ardel Haefele-Thomas is the Chair of LGBT Studies at City College of San Francisco. They have published numerous essays on queer and trans Gothic themes including “Gothic, AIDS, and Sexuality, 1981- present” for Cambridge History of the Gothic edited by Catherine Spooner and Dale Townshend (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and “That Dreadful Thing That Looked Like a Beautiful Girl: Trans Anxiety/Trans Possibility in Three Late Victorian Werewolf Tales” for Transgothic in Literature and Culture edited by Jolene Zigarovich (Routledge Press, 2018). Dr. Haefele-Thomas is also the author of Introduction to Transgender Studies (Columbia University Press, 2019) and Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity (University of Wales Press, 2012). They are currently working on a monograph on AIDS Gothic for the University of Wales Press as well as a four volume set of archival, rare, and hard to find nineteenth century British LGBTQI+ materials for Routledge Press. Both projects are forthcoming in 2024.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction to Queer Gothic: 'I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey'Ardel Haefele-ThomasPart I: Queer TimesChapter 1 - Desiring Deformity in the Romantic GothicJeremy ChowChapter 2 - Queer Gothic: Romantic Origins and Victorian InnovationsJolene ZigarovichChapter 3 - Strange Cases of the Queer fin de siècle: Law, Medicine and the Gothic Imaginative ModeJamil MustafaChapter 4 - Gothic Cinema and Sexology in the Weimar Republic: Towards a Queer Gothic Aesthetic on ScreenDennis WegnerChapter 5 -‘Tarting up ideas in costume jewellery’: Contemporary Gothic CampThomas BrassingtonPart II: Queer MonstersChapter 6 - Queer Vampires: What We Want Is In The ShadowsS. Brooke CameronChapter 7 - Queer ZombiesXavier Aldana ReyesChapter 8 - ‘Queer-Wolves and Wolf-Boyz and Were-Bears, Oh My!’: Queering the Wolf in New Queer Horror Film and TVDarren Elliott-SmithChapter 9 - ‘Spectrality is in part a mode of historicity ’: Representations of Spectrality in Queer Historiography and Contemporary FictionPaulina PalmerChapter 10 - Witchcraft, Gender and Queerness in Contemporary British LiteratureSilvia AntosaPart III: Queer FormsChapter 11 - Queer Gothic PoetryClayton Carlyle TarrChapter 12 - Queer Gothic Visual Art: A Twisted Path From The Eighteenth Century To The Twenty-FirstLaura WestengardChapter 13 - Queering Gothic Slash Fandoms: Harry Potter, Ginger Snaps and WorldbuildingGregory Luke ChwalaChapter 14 - Solidarity Is More Than A Slogan: Queer Representation in the Virtual WorldDawn StobbartChapter 15 - ‘Y’all ain’t from around these parts’: Queer Displacement in American Folk HorrorAmanda CruzChapter 16 - This Is What Queer Resistance Looks Like: AIDS Gothic ArtArdel Haefele-ThomasBibliographyFilmographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

This is a book that’s urgently needed, and it doesn’t disappoint. Its sixteen authors provide an up-to-date exploration of queer Gothic, reflecting a rapidly changing theoretical field and ranging widely across the LGBTQ+ spectrum. The result is a rich, riotous feast of ideas, sure to tantalise, provoke and spark new conversations.