Chapter 1 ‘Designing Gourmet Children or, KIDS FOR DINNER!’

Chapter 3 ‘I wants to make your flesh creep’: Notes toward a Reading of the Comic-Gothic in Dickens

Chapter 4 Hopkins and the Gothic Body

Chapter 5 From King Arthur to Sidonia the Sorceress: the Dual Nature of Pre-Raphaelite Mediaevalism

Chapter 6 Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, Literary Influence and Technologies of the Uncanny

Chapter 7 The ‘Anxious Dream’: Julia Margaret Cameron’s Gothic Perspective

Chapter 8 Trance-Gothic, 1882–97

Chapter 9 ‘Withered, Wrinkled, and Loathsome of Visage’: Reading the Ethics of the Soul and the Late-Victorian Gothic in The Picture of Dorian Gray

Chapter 10 Apparitions Can Be Deceptive: Vernon Lee’s Androgynous Spectres

Chapter 11 Gothic and Supernatural: Allegories at Work and Play in Kipling’s Indian Fiction

Chapter 12 Archaeology and Gothic Desire: Vitality Beyond the Grave in H. Rider Haggard’s Ancient Egypt