Volume 4, Issue 1 (Summer 2017)
Between Madness, Malice and Marginalization: Reading the Ghost of Jennet Humfrye in Susan Hill's The Woman in Black in the Context of Trauma Theory, by Denise Burkhard (9-20). [Read/Download]
How (Not) to Read the American Haunted House, by Dara Downey (21-35). [Read/Download]
Re/possessed: the Haunted House, Spectral Debt, and the Hyper-Gothic in Lunar Park (2005), by Amy Bride (36-48). [Read/Download]
Ghosts in the Machine: Spectral Technologies, Haunting Affects, and Virtual-Feminine Ghosts, by Raechel Dumas (49-63). [Read/Download]
Viral Video, Traumatic Therapy: Hideo Nakata's Ringu and the Attempt to Cure the Future by Inoculating Us with the Past, by Sigmund Shen (64-79). [Read/Download]
The Girl with the Gravestone Sidewalk: A Poetics of the Dead, by Joshua Adair (80-96). [Read/Download]
Shantooe Jest: A Forgotten Nineteenth-Century Fairy Saga, by Simon Young (9-22). [Read/Download]
The Gothic Experience of Terror and Horror in Matthew Lewis's The Monk, by Erica McCrystal (23-32). [Read/Download]
Dark Shadows and Gothic Lights: Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, by Osmond Chien-ming Chang (33-41). [Read/Download]
The Moral Imagination and Sergeant James Hathaway in Inspector Lewis, by Heather Ostman (42-55). [Read/Download]
Monkey Drag: Gendering and Deconstructing the Sasquatch Masquerade, by James Keller (56-64). [Read/Download]
Teen Drama with a Bite: Human Animality in Teen Wolf, by Anastassiya Andrianova (65-84). [Read/Download]
"Sweetheart, this is Gender Studies": Jo Harvelle, Female Strength, and Fandom in Supernatural, by Victoria Farmer (85-98). [Read/Download]
Film Series Review Essay
Paranormal Found-Footage Fizzle: The Rise and Fall of the Paranormal Activity Franchise, by William D. Prystauk (99-108). [Read/Download]
Book Reviews [Read/Download All]
Davidson, Jane P. Early Modern Supernatural: The Dark Side of the European Culture, 1400-1700. Review by Timothy Bernard Walsh.
Smith, Jay M. Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast. Review by Todd Spaulding.
Miller, Cynthia J., and Bowdoin Van Riper, eds. Undead in the West: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, and Ghosts on the Cinematic Frontier. Review by Murray Leeder.
Wilson, Leah, ed. A Taste of True Blood: the Fangbanger's Guide and George Dunn and Rebecca Housel, eds. True Blood and Philosophy: We Wanna Think Bad Things
with You. Review by Alysa Hornick.
Redding, Arthur. Haints: American Ghosts, Millenial Passions, and Contemporary Gothic Fictions. Review by Christopher K. Coffman.
Volume 2, Issue 2 (Summer 2015)
Special Issue: The Supernatural in the Long Nineteenth CenturyGuest Editor: Janine Hatter
Introduction, by Janine Hatter (9-13). [Read/Download]
Banishing the Beast: The Role of the Wolf in "Dracula's Guest" and Its Omission from Dracula, by Kaja Franck and Matthew Beresford (14-28). [Read/Download]
Writing the Vampire: M.E. Braddon's "Good Lady Ducayne" and Bram Stoker's Dracula, by Janine Hatter (29-47). [Read/Download]
Bram Stoker's The Lair of the White Worm: Supernatural Representations and Nineteenth-Century Paleontology, by Carol Senf (48-58). [Read/Download]
Acting Monstrous: Staging the Creature in Presumption; Or, The Fate of
Frankenstein, by Brittany Reid (59-72). [Read/Download]
Haunted Tomes, Haunted Canvases: Supernatural Realism in Nineteenth-Century
Novels and Paintings, by Cameron Dodworth (73-92). [Read/Download]
"Land of the living that's thronged with the dead": Mary Kingsley and
the Ghosts of West Africa, by Melissa Edmundson (93-107). [Article unavailable as open-access by request of the author.]
From Ouina to Black Hawk: The Role of Native American Spirit Controls in the
Victorian-Era Séance, by Elizabeth Lowry (108-117). [Read/Download]
Mesmeric Clairvoyance in Mid-Victorian Literature: Eliot, Bulwer-Lytton, and
MacDonald, by Helena Ifill (118-132). [Read/Download]
Anatomy of the Demons: The Demoniac Body Dealers of the Penny Bloods, by Anna
Gasperini (133-147). [Read/Download]
Reincarnation, Rudyard Kipling, and Mortimer Collins, by Erin Louttit
(148-160). [Read/Download]
William Carleton, Folklore, the Famine, and the Irish Supernatural, by Melissa
Fegan (161-173). [Read/Download]
Ghostly Markings: Aesthetic Criminality, Acts, and Supernatural Identity in
Wilde's "The Canterville Ghost," by Christie Cognevich
(174-183). [Read/Download]
Book Reviews [Read/Download All]
Killeen, Jarlath, ed. Bram Stoker: Centenary Essays. Review by Joy Bracewell.Budge, Gavin. Romanticism, Medicine, and the Natural Supernatural. Review by Emma Butcher.
Elbert, Monika, and Bridget M. Marshall, eds. Transnational Gothic: Literary and Social Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century. Review by Kevin Corstorphine.
Wynne, Catherine. Bram Stoker, Dracula, and the Victorian Gothic Stage. Review by Matthew Crofts.
Gifford.
Makala, Melissa Edmundson. Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Review by Nicole Lobdell.
Gibson, Matthew. The Fantastic and European Gothic: History, Literature and the French Revolution. Review by Carol A. Senf.
Gimes, Hilary. The Late Victorian Gothic: Mental Science, the Uncanny and Scenes of Writing. Review by Victoria Samantha Dawson.
Volume 2, Issue 1 (Spring 2015)
Special Issue: Television and the SupernaturalGuest Editor: Marisa C. Hayes
Introduction, by Marisa C. Hayes (7-10).
Supernatural Potentialities and Household Technologies: Communication Devices Gone Wild in Tales of Tomorrow and The Twilight Zone, by Kylo-Patrick R. Hart (11-21).
Ghostwatch: Supernatural and Technological Presence in Early 1990s Britain, by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (22-33).
Wandering Wesen: Immigration as Adaptation in Grimm, by Angela Tenga (34-46).
"Three days of the month I'm not much fun to be around either": Werewolves and the Gendered Body in Buffy, True Blood, and Grimm, by Rachael Johnstone (47-61).
Ghosts in the Machine: Fringe Bodies, by Lisa K. Perdigao (62-74).
Writing the Winchesters: Embodies Inscriptions and the Bleeding Text(s) of Supernatural, by Najwa Al-Tabaa and Katherine Shaeffer (75-88).
Television Series Review Essays
The Twilight Zone, rev. by Guillaume Lecomte.
Dark Shadows, rev. by Drew Beard.
Tales from the Dark Side, rev. by Drew Beard.
Twin Peaks, rev. by Franck Boulégue.
The X-Files, rev. by Angela Bayout.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, rev. by Andrew Howe.
Charmed, rev. by Laura Lott.
Lost, rev. by Kristine Larsen.
Being Human (UK), rev. by Laura Lott.
True Blood, rev. by Shara Clark.
The Walking Dead, rev. by M. Lee Brown.
American Horror Story, rev. by Shara Clark.
The Returned (Les Revenants), rev. by Emeline Morin.
Volume 1, Issue 1 (Summer 2013)
Editors: Margo Collins and Deborah ChristieThe Bloodsucking Brady Bunch: The Lost Boys and the Single-Parent Family, by Jeremy Tirrell (7-16).
The Witch, the Cauldron, and the Inverted Cooking Ritual, by Allene Nichols (17-30).
Undead America:The Emergence of the Modern Zombie in American Culture, by Daniel Compora (31-38).
(Re)Visiting and (Re)Visioning the Self/Other Divide in Science Fiction Transmutations of the Gothic, by Janine Hatter (39-52).
“Darkness has too much to offer”: Revising the Gothic Vampire, by Sara Cleto (53-64).
A Structure Without a Center: Is “Monster TV” a Heart of Darkness?, by James Keller (65-79). [Read/Download]
Bella and the Beast: When Vampires Fall in Love, or the Twilight of a Genre, by Marko Lukić and Ljubica Matek (80-92).
Book Reviews
Samuel, Lawrence R. Supernatural America:
A Cultural History. Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2011, rev. by Adam M. Crowley.
Lázaro-Reboll, Antonio. Spanish
Horror Film. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012, rev. by Robert L.
Turner III.
Dendle, Peter. The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, Volume 2: 2000-2010.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2012, rev. by Janine Hatter.
Cherry, Brigid, ed. True Blood: Investigating Vampires and Southern
Gothic. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2012, rev. by Marion Gibson.
Poole, W., Scott. Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with
the Hideous and the Haunting. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2011,
rev. by Peter J. Maurits.
Gecser, Ottó, József Laszlovszky, Balázs Nagy, Marcell Sebők,Katalin Szende,
eds. Promoting the Saints: Cults and Their Contexts in Late Antiquity
until the Early
Modern Period, CEU Medievalia 12. Budapest: Central
European University Press, 2011, rev. by Sara Williams.
Smajić, Srdjan. Ghost-Seers, Detectives, and Spiritualists: Theories of
Vision in Victorian Literature and Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2010, rev. by
Derek Johnston.
McClelland, Clive. Ombra: Supernatural Music in the Eighteenth Century.
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012, rev. by Stephanie Pietros.
McMahon-Coleman, Kimberley and Roslyn Weaver. Werewolves and Other
Shapeshifters in Popular Culture: A Thematic Analysis of Recent Depictions.
Jefferson, NC:
McFarland & Co., 2012, rev. by Alysa Hornick.