Gothic Animals

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 ‘Like a Madd Dogge’: Demonic Animals and Animal Demoniacs in Early Modern English Possession Narratives

Chapter 3 ‘Most Hideous of Gaolers’: The Spider in Ernest G. Henham’s Tenebrae

Chapter 4 Devouring the Animal Within: Uncanny Otherness in Richard Adams’s The Plague Dogs

Chapter 5 Hunted, Now Haunting: The Thylacine as a Gothic Symbol in Julia Leigh’s The Hunter

Chapter 6 ‘What Do I Use to Make Them Afraid?’: The Gothic Animal and the Problem of Legitimacy in American Superhero Comics

Chapter 7 Imagining the Becoming-Unextinct of Megalodon: Spectral Animals, Digital Resurrection, and the Vanishing of the Human

Chapter 8 ‘Rats Is Bogies I Tell You, and Bogies Is Rats’: Rats, Repression, and the Gothic Mode

Chapter 9 At Home with Miniature Sea-Monsters: Philip Henry Gosse, Charles Kingsley, and ‘The Great Unknown’

Chapter 10 Uncanny Snails: Patricia Highsmith and the Allure of the Gastropods

Chapter 11 ‘I Have Flyophobia’: Jane Rice’s ‘The Idol of the Flies’ and Evil as Unwanted Houseguest

Chapter 12 ‘Encircled by Minute, Evilly-Intentioned Airplanes’: The Uncanny Biopolitics of Robotic Bees

Chapter 13 A Bark and Stormy Night: Ann Radcliffe’s Animals

Chapter 14 Hellish Horses and Monstrous Men: Gothic Horsemanship in Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe

Chapter 15 The Colonial Idol, the Animalistic, and the New Woman in the Imperial Gothic of Richard Marsh

Chapter 16 Victor Hugo’s Pieuvre and the Marine EcoGothic

Chapter 17 The Human Within and the Animal Without?: Rats and Mr Bunnsy in Terry Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Chapter 18 Companion Animals in Contemporary Scottish Women’s Gothic