William Hughes - The Encyclopedia of the Gothic

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The encyclopedia of the gothic / general editors: William Hughes, David Punter, and Andrew Smith.

volumes cm. (The Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of literature)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4051-8290-4 (hardcover : alk. paper), ISBN 978-1-119-06460-2 (pbk : alk. paper)

1. Gothic fi ction (Literary genre)Encyclopedias. 2. Gothic revival (Literature)Encyclopedias.

3. Gothic revival (Art)Encyclopedias. 4. Horror in mass mediaEncyclopedias. I. Hughes, William, 1964

II. Punter, David. III. Smith, Andrew, 1964

PN3435.E56 2013

809.3'872903dc23

2012031784

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Cover image: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) by Jean Epstein. Photo12, Alamy

For Ben Fisher, with gratitude for over twenty years of friendship.

William Hughes

For Gothic readers and scholars, present and future.

David Punter

For my students.

Andrew Smith

1. Abjection
2. Abyss, The
3. Adultery
4. African American Gothic
5. Aickman, Robert
6. Ainsworth, William Harrison
7. American Gothic
8. Amityville Horror, The
9. Angel (19992004)
10. Anglo-Caribbean Gothic
11. Anti-Semitism
12. Apparition
13. Architecture, Gothic
14. Architecture, Gothic Revival
15. Asian Gothic
16. Asylums
17. Atwood, Margaret
18. Australian Gothic
19. Barker, Clive
20. Baudelaire, Charles
21. Beckford, William
22. Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)
23. Bierce, Ambrose
24. Blackwood, Algernon
25. Blood
26. Bluebooks
27. Braddon, Mary Elizabeth
28. Brite, Poppy Z.
29. Brown, Charles Brockden
30. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (19972003)
31. Bulwer Lytton, Edward
32. Brger, Gottfried
33. Burton, Tim
34. Byron, George Gordon, Sixth Baron
35. Cabell, James Branch
36. Campbell, Ramsey
37. Campus Gothic
38. Canadian Gothic
39. Carter, Angela
40. Collins, Wilkie
41. Comic Gothic
42. Comics and Graphic Novels
43. Commodity Gothicism
44. Contemporary Gothic
45. Corelli, Marie
46. Counterfeit
47. Crime
48. Criticism
49. Cronenberg, David
50. Crowley, Aleister
51. Cryptonymy
52. Cult Fiction
53. Cults
54. Curse
55. Cyberspace
56. De Quincey, Thomas
57. Degeneration
58. Dickens, Charles
59. Disability
60. Domestic Gothic
61. Dostoevsky, Fyodor
62. Doubles
63. Drama
64. Dreams
65. Drugs and Alcohol
66. Du Maurier, Daphne
67. Dutch Gothic
68. Environment
69. European Gothic
70. Family
71. Fate
72. Faulkner, William
73. Female Gothic
74. Film
75. Film, French
76. Fin-de-Sicle Gothic
77. Folklore
78. French Gothic
79. Friday the 13th (1980)
80. Future Gothic
81. Games
82. German Expressionism
83. German Gothic
84. Ghost Stories
85. Godwin, William
86. Goth
87. Gothic 1900 to 1950
88. Gothic 1950 to the Present
89. Graveyard Poetry
90. Grotesque, The
91. Halloween (1978)
92. Hammer House
93. Hawthorne, Nathaniel
94. Herbert, James
95. Hill, Susan
96. Hodgson, William Hope
97. Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)
98. Hogg, James
99. Horror Fiction
100. Hypnotism
101. Imperial Gothic
102. Incest
103. Inheritance
104. Inquisition, The