
Notes Primary Reading List Further Selected Readings in the Gothic Index vii Land of Shadows: Melmoth the Wanderer to Sweeney Toddĭark Reflections in a Dull Mirror: Fuseli's The Nightmare and the Origins of Gothic Theatreĭesire and Loathing Strangely Mixed: Gothic Melodrama and The Phantom of the OperaĪfter Midnight: Goth Culture, Vampire Games and the Irresistible Rise of Twilight 179 Now Welcome the Night: The Origins of Gothic CultureĮvery True Goth: From Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill to Thomas De Quincey's Opium Dreams Matthew Lewis, Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogine', from The Monk, Chapter 9 William Gibson, Neuromancer, Chapter 21 At midnight four times in each year does her spright, When mortals in slumber are bound, Arrayed in her bridal apparel of white, Appear in the hall with the Skeleton-Knight, And shriek as he whirls her around.

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Related titles available from Continuum: Gothic Readings Rictor Norton Horror Fiction Gina Wisker Pleasures of Horror Matthew Hills Chapter One: Now Welcome the Night: The Origins of Gothic CultureĬhapter Two: Every True Goth: From Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill to Thomas De Quincey's Opium DreamsĬhapter Three: With Raven Wings: Ann Radcliffe, German Horrors and the Divine MarquisĬhapter Four: Land of Shadows: Melmoth the Wanderer to Sweeney ToddĬhapter Five: Dark Reflections in a Dull Mirror: Fuseli's The Nightmare and the Origins of Gothic TheatreĬhapter Six: Desire and Loathing Strangely Mixed: Gothic Melodrama and The Phantom of the OperaĬhapter Seven: Do You See It?: The Gothic and the GhostlyĬhapter Eight: It's Alive: The Rise of the Gothic MovieĬhapter Nine: After Midnight: Goth Culture, Vampire Games and the Irresistible Rise of Twilight
