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 1. Horror tales, English—History and criticism. 2. Gothic revival (Literature)—English-speaking countries. 3. Psychoanalysis and literature–English-speaking countries. 4. Horror tales, American—History and criticism. 5. Psychological fiction—History and criticism. 6. Ghost stories—History and criticism. I. Punter, David.

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Lucie Armitt is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Salford. She is a specialist in the literary fantastic, the contemporary Gothic, and contemporary women’s fiction. Her major publications include The Twentieth-Century Gothic (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2011), Fantasy Fiction (New York: Continuum, 2005), Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Fantastic (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000), and Theorising the Fantastic (London: Arnold, 1996).

Chris Baldick is Professor of English at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London. He has edited The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992) and, with Robert Morrison, Tales of Terror from Blackwood’s Magazine (1995) and The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre (1997). Among his other books are In Frankenstein’s Shadow (1987) and Criticism and Literary Theory 1890 to the Present (1996).

Clive Bloom is Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Middlesex University, UK. He currently teaches at both New York University and the University of Notre Dame. He has written many books on popular culture, cultural history, and literary criticism, regularly appears on radio and television and contributes to a number of national newspapers.

Fred Botting teaches in the Department of English at Lancaster University. He has written two books on Gothic texts, Making Monstrous (1991) and Gothic (1996), and has recently published Sex, Machines and Navels (1999). He has also co-edited (with Scott Wilson) The Bataille Reader and The Bataille Critical Reader and co-written Holy Shit: The Tarantinian Ethics (forthcoming).

Scott Brewster is Reader in English and Irish Literature and Director of English at the University of Salford. He is author of Lyric (2009) and co-editor, with Michael Parker, of Irish Literature since 1990: Diverse Voices (2009). Previous publications include the co-edited Inhuman Reflections; Thinking the Limits of the Human (2000). He has published widely on Irish writing, the Gothic, and psychoanalysis, and is currently working on a book about Sigmund Freud and commemoration.

Julia Briggs was Professor of English Literature at De Montfort University, Leicester, and an emeritus fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. She is the author of a history of the ghost story, Night Visitors (1977), a study of Renaissance literature in its historical context, This Stage-Play World (1983, 1997), and a biography of the children’s writer E. Nesbit: A Woman of Passion (1987). She acted as general editor for the thirteen volumes of Virginia Woolf reprinted in Penguin Classics.

Steven Bruhm is Robert and Ruth Lumsden Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Gothic Bodies: The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction and Reflecting Narcissus: A Queer Aesthetic, along with numerous articles on Gothic literature, film, and dance. He is currently trying to decide whether to write a book on Gothic choreography or Gothic children.

Glennis Byron is Professor of English at the University of Stirling, Scotland and works on both nineteenth-century and contemporary Gothic. Recent publications include articles on Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Stephenie Meyer, and Justin Cronin and an edited collection of essays on global Gothic, one of the products of an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project. She is Director of the MLitt in The Gothic Imagination at Stirling, and has written extensively on vampire fiction, Dracula, and the fin-de-siècle.

Ian Conrich is a Fellow in the Department, Film, and Theatre at the University of Essex. The author of New Zealand Film – A Guide (2008, in Polish), Studies in New Zealand Cinema (2009), New Zealand Cinema (2011), and Culture and Customs of New Zealand (forthcoming), he is an editor of a further eleven books, including New Zealand – A Pastoral Paradise? (2000), New Zealand Filmmakers (2007), Contemporary New Zealand Cinema (2008), The Cinema of New Zealand (in Polish, 2009), and Horror Zone: The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema (2009).

Neil Cornwell is Professor Emeritus (of Russian and Comparative Literature), University of Bristol. His authored books include The Literary Fantastic (1990), James Joyce and the Russians (1992), Vladimir Nabokov (1999), The Absurd in Literature (2006), and three books featuring Vladimir Odoevsky – the latest being Odoevsky’s Four Pathways into Modern Fiction (2010). Among his edited books are Reference Guide to Russian Literature (1998) and The Gothic-Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature (1999). He has also translated and edited selected works by Odoevsky, Lermontov, Mayakovsky, and Daniil Kharms.

Nora Crook is Reader in English at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge. She is the general editor of The Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley (1996) and volume editor of Frankenstein and Valperga in that collection. She has published extensively on the Shelleys. She is general editor of a planned edition of Mary Shelley’s literary biography and a member of the team editing The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley for Johns Hopkins University Press.

Ian Duncan is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Scott’s Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (2007) and Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel (1992), and a co-editor of Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism (2004), Travel Writing 1700–1830 (2005), Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels (2009), and the forthcoming Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg. He has edited Scott’s Rob Roy and Hogg’s Winter Evening Tales and Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

Kate Ferguson Ellis teaches in the English Department at Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Her published work includes both scholarly and creative writing. Her book on the eighteenth-century Gothic, The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology, published in 1989, is still in print from the University of Illinois Press. More recently, her interest has turned to the genre of memoir, and she has published one of these, titled Crossing Borders. She is currently at work on a sequel to this memoir with the working title Thank You for Yesterday.

Ken Gelder is Professor of English at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His books include Reading the Vampire (1994), Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation (1998, with Jane M. Jacobs), Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field (2004), Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice (2007), and After the Celebration: Australian Fiction 1989–2007 (2009, with Paul Salzman). He is editor of The Horror Reader (2000) and The Subcultures Reader (2005).

Jerrold E. Hogle is University Distinguished Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies and Honors in English at the University of Arizona, as well as past President of the International Gothic Association and the Chair of the General Editors for the new International Gothic book series from the Manchester University Press. A Guggenheim and Mellon fellow for research and a multiple award-winner for teaching, he has published widely on Romantic and Gothic literature, most notably in, among other books, The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction and The Undergrounds of “The Phantom of the Opera”.

Avril Horner is Emeritus Professor of English at Kingston University, London. She is co-author, with Sue Zlosnik, of Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005); and, with Janet Beer, of Edith Wharton: Sex, Satire, and the Older Woman (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). She is editor of European Gothic: A Spirited Exchange, 1760–1960 (Manchester University Press, 2002) and co-editor (with Sue Zlosnik) of Le Gothic: Influences and Appropriations in Europe and America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and Eaton Stannard Barrett’s The Heroine (Valancourt Books, 2011).

William Hughes is Professor of Gothic Studies at Bath Spa University, UK. He is the editor of Gothic Studies, the refereed journal of the International Gothic Association, and with Andrew Smith was elected Joint President of that scholarly organization in 2009. The co-editor of several volumes of Gothic criticism, he is the author of Beyond Dracula: Bram Stoker’s Fiction and its Cultural Context (2000) and That Devil’s Trick: Hypnotism and the Nineteenth-Century Popular Imagination (forthcoming).

Charles Shir Inouye is Professor of Japanese Literature and the director of the International Literary and Visual Studies program at Tufts University. His publications include Japanese Gothic Tales by Izumi Kyka (Hawaii, 1996) and In Light of Shadows – More Tales by Izumi Kyka (Hawaii, 2003). He is a winner of the US–Japan Friendship Commission Prize for the best English translation of a work of Japanese literature, and is presently the chair of the selection committee for this prize. He is also the author of Evanescence and Form: An Introduction to Japanese Culture (Palgrave, 2008), and is presently finishing two new book projects: Figurality and the Development of Modern Consciousness and The End of the World, Plan B.

Heidi Kaye was formerly Senior Lecturer in English and Women’s Studies at De Montfort University, UK, where she helped found the MA Film and Fiction (now MA in Adaptations). Her research interests included eighteenth- to nineteenth-century women’s writing and popular culture, with publications ranging from articles on Fanny Burney and Jane Austen through The X Files and Kenneth Branagh’s Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”. She co-edited four volumes of the Pluto Press series Film/Fiction.

Allan Lloyd Smith was Senior Lecturer in English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is the author of three books, The Analysis of Motives: Early American Psychology and Fiction (1980), Eve Tempted: Sexuality and Writing in Hawthorne’s Fiction (1987), and Uncanny American Literature (1989), and also The Crucible CD-ROM. He has written many articles on British and American writers and has also co-edited two essay collections, Gothick Origins and Innovations (1994) and Modern Gothic: A Reader (1995).

Michelle Massé is Director of Women’s and Gender Studies and Professor of English at Louisiana State University. She is the author of In the Name of Love: Women, Masochism, and the Gothic, co-editor of Over Ten Million Served: Gendered Service in Language and Literature Workplaces, and author of various essays on psychoanalysis, feminism, and fiction. The series editor of SUNY Press’s Feminist Theory and Criticism series, she is working on a project entitled Great Expectations: Gendering Age, Narcissism, and the Bildunsgroman, as well as a monograph on Louisa May Alcott.

Robert Mighall is a former Fellow in English at Merton College, Oxford, and former editor of the Penguin Classics series. He is now an independent scholar and writer. He is the author of A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction (OUP, 1999); A Cultural History of Modern Sun Worship (Sunshine, 2008); and a short biography of Keats (2009), as well as editing the Penguin Classics editions of The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Robert Miles is Professor of English at the University of Victoria. A Past President of the International Gothic Association, he is the author of Gothic Writing 1750–1820: A Genealogy (1993), Ann Radcliffe: The Great Enchantress (1995), and Jane Austen: Writers and their Work (2003). His most recent book is Romantic Misfits (2008).

Vijay Mishra is Professor of English Literature and Australia Research Council (ARC) Professorial Fellow at Murdoch University. Among his publications are Dark Side of the Dream: Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind (with Bob Hodge) (Allen and Unwin, 1991), The Gothic Sublime (State University of New York Press, 1994), Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime (SUNY, 1998), Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire (Routledge, 2002), and The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorising the Diasporic Imaginary (Routledge, 2007).

David Punter is Professor of English at the University of Bristol, UK. He is Chair of the Executive Committee of the International Gothic Association, and of the Editorial Board of Gothic Studies. He has published extensively on romantic, Gothic, modern, and contemporary literature, as well as on psychoanalysis and critical theory. His best-known book on the Gothic is The Literature of Terror (1980, 1996); his more recent works include Writing the Passions (2001) and Rapture: Literature, Addiction, Secrecy (2009). His fifth book of poetry, Foreign Ministry, will be published in 2011.

Julia Round lectures in the Media School at Bournemouth University, UK, and edits the academic journal Studies in Comics (Intellect Books). She has published and presented work internationally on cross-media adaptation, television and discourse analysis, the application of literary terminology to comics, the “graphic novel” redefinition, and the presence of Gothic and fantastic motifs in this medium. She is currently writing a monograph on the Gothic and graphic novels (Mcfarland).

Victor Sage has been Professor of English Literature and Chair of Graduate Studies in the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of two novels and one collection of short stories and has published widely on the Gothic tradition. Recent publications include Black Shawl (1995) and, co-edited with Allan Lloyd Smith, Modern Gothic: A Reader (1997).

Robin Sowerby, now retired, was formerly Senior Lecturer in English Studies at Stirling University, where he contributed to the teaching of Gothic Studies in the eighteenth century. His main interests lie in the classical heritage, reflected in The Classical Legacy in Renaissance Poetry (1994), The Augustan Art of Poetry: Augustan Translations of the Classics (2006), and Early Augustan Virgil; Translations by Denham, Godolphin and Waller (2010).

Catherine Spooner is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Lancaster University, UK. She is the author of Fashioning Gothic Bodies (2004) and Contemporary Gothic (2006), as well as numerous articles on Gothic literature, fashion, and popular culture. She is the co-editor, with Emma McEvoy, of The Routledge Companion to Gothic (2007). Her next book will be Post-Millennial Gothic: Comedy, Romance and the Rise of Happy Gothic.

Cynthia Sugars is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of numerous essays on the Canadian Gothic, and is the editor of Unhomely States: Theorising English-Canadian Postcolonialism (2004), Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature (2004), and Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic (2009). Her book, entitled Canadian Gothic: Literature, History, and the Spectre of Self-Invention, is currently under contract with the University of Wales Press “Gothic Literary Studies” series.

Douglass H. Thomson is a Professor of English at Georgia Southern University. His most recent work on Gothic literature includes a critical edition of M. G. Lewis’s Tales of Wonder (Broadview, 2009), an article on Frank Sayers’s ballad “Sir Egwin” in Papers on Language and Literature (2010), and a chapter in Danel Olson’s Twenty-First Century Gothic on Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (Scarecrow Press, 2010).

Dale Townshend is Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Stirling, UK, where he teaches extensively on the MLitt in The Gothic Imagination. His publications include Gothic: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, co-edited with Fred Botting; Gothic Shakespeares, co-edited with John Drakakis; and a monograph, The Orders of Gothic: Foucault, Lacan, and the Subject of Gothic Writing, 1764–1820. His current projects include a monograph on the relationship between literature and Gothic architectural form in Romantic-era writing.

Joanne Watkiss is a Lecturer in the School of Cultural Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University. Her monograph, Gothic Contemporaries: The Haunted Text, will be published as part of the Gothic Literary Studies series with the University of Wales Press in 2011. Her primary research interests are the interactions between Derrida’s later works and the Gothic, in both contemporary and “classic” Gothic texts.

Gina Wisker is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Higher Education and head of the Centre for Learning and Teaching at the University of Brighton. Her specialism is contemporary women’s Gothic and she has essays on Toni Morrison, Nalo Hopkinson, Daphne du Maurier, contemporary women’s vampire writing, and Angela Carter in several books, including Postfeminist Gothic and Queering the Gothic, various Greenwood encyclopaedias, and journals including Gothic Studies, Femspec, Journal of Gender Studies, Diegesis, and Slayage. Her Horror Fiction came out from Continuum in 2005, and she co-edits the dark fantasy horror journal (online) Dissections and the (now online) poetry magazine Spokes. She also writes short horror fiction and poetry and teaches twentieth-century women’s writing and Gothic literature.

David Worrall is Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of Theatric Revolution: Drama, Censorship and Romantic Period Subcultures, 1773–1832 (2006), The Politics of Romantic Theatricality: The Road to the Stage (2007), and Harlequin Empire: Race, Ethnicity and the Drama of the Popular Enlightenment (2007).

Sue Zlosnik is Professor of Gothic Literature at the Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. With Avril Horner, her publications included Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination (1998), Gothic and the Comic Turn (2005), the edited collection Le Gothic: Influences and Appropriations in Europe and America (2008) (all Palgrave Macmillan), and an edition of Eaton Stannard Barrett’s The Heroine (Valancourt, 2011). Alone, she has published essays on Meredith, Stevenson, Tolkien, and Palahniuk. Her most recent book is Patrick McGrath (University of Wales Press, 2011).