Postmodernism/gothicism / Allan Lloyd Smith -- The politics of petrifaction: culture, religion, history in the fiction of Iain Banks and John Banville / Victor Sage -- The pre-Oedipal father: the gothicism of Blue Velvet / Laura Mulvey -- Wild nights and buried letters: the gothic "unconscious" of feminist criticism / Ros Ballaster -- Postmodern feminine horror fictions / Susanne Becker -- Isak Dinesen and the fiction of gothic gravity / Helen Stoddart -- Tearing your
soul apart: horror's new monsters / Peter Hutchings -- Gothic spaces: the political aesthetics of Toni Morrison's
Beloved / Liliane Weissberg -- Problems of recollection and construction: Stephen King / David Punter -- Postmodern gothic: desire and reality in Angela Carter's writing / Beate Neumeier -- Alien invasion by body snatchers and related creatures / David Seed -- Postcolonial gothic: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the Sobhraj case / Julie Newman -- Gothic convention and modernity in John Ramsay Campbell's short fiction / Giles Menegaldo.