Svitlana (Lana) Krys is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at MacEwan University, CanadaMaryna Romanets is Professor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada

• Introduction to Russo-Soviet imperialist hauntings— Maryna RomanetsI Art, performance, and film1 The ghosts of the Soviet past in Natalia Vorozhbyt’s Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha— Oleksandra Wallo2 Refusing to die: Neo-Gothic political fiction and post-Yugoslav cultural production— Mirjana Stošic3 Post-Soviet apocalypse in Gothic fiction and Gothic politics— Dina KhapaevaII Gender, identity, and sexuality4 Haunted in desolation: Queering the post-Soviet Latvian Gothic— Karlis Verdinš5 Sophia Andrukhovych’s Felix Austria:The postcolonial neo-Gothic and Ukraine’s search for itself— Vitaly Chernetsky6 Feminism as a Gothic “thoughtcrime”: Contextualizing Alma by Izabela Filipiak— Dorota FilipczakIII Spectral geographies, borderland, diaspora7 The Eastern European monster reclaimed: Finding a voice in a postsocialist, postcolonial world— Eva R. Hudecova8 Andriy Lyubka’s Carbide: Ukrainian democratic reforms through a dark glass— Svitlana (Lana) Krys9 The madwoman on the farm: Witches in Ukrainian Canadian literature— Lindy LedohowskiIV (Post)communism, totalitarianism, historical trauma10 Spectrality, necropolitics, and Gothic topography of the city in Nikolai Grozni’s Wunderkind— Roberto Adinolfi and Maryna Romanets11 Institutional Gothic in the novels of Vladimir Sharov and Evgenii Vodolazkin— Muireann Maguire12 The tomb of the reluctant tyrant: Uncanny imaginings of totalitarianism in Ismail Kadare’s The Pyramid — Adriana RaducanuEditors’ postscript: Cradle — Svitlana (Lana) Krysand Maryna RomanetsBibliographyIndex