The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic Edited by Clive Bloom The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic Clive Bloom Editor The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic Editor Clive Bloom Ilford, UK ISBN 978-3-030-33135-1 ISBN 978-3-030-33136-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33136-8 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. 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Cover image: Angela Waye/Alamy Stock Photo This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland He grappled with a hostile atmosphere that surrounded him with menaces. There came the echo of distant baying, growing louder, reverberating through the empty halls, filling his ears. Stricken with horror, he dashed out as fast as he could. —Guy Endore, The Werewolf of Paris (1934) Acknowledgements The editor would like to thank Lesley Kacher for her help and assistance in organ- ising the manuscript, Ellie Henderson, Emily Wood, Lina Aboujieb, Aishwarya Balachandar and the Production team at Palgrave and the members of the International Gothic Association who all helped to make this volume possible. vii Permissions The editor wishes to thank the following for permission to quote from their work: Dame Carol Anne Duffy for permission to quote from The Lancashire Witches (2012) ‘One voice for ten dragged this way once’, ‘Superstition’, ‘Ignorance’, ‘Crone’, ‘On the wind’s breath, curse of crow and rook’, ‘Landscape’, and ‘The same old witness moon’ in Alex Bevan, ‘Walking with the Lancashire Witches’; Martyn Jaques of Tiger Lillies copyright Misery Guts Music Ltd in Joana Rita Ramalho, ‘The Tiger Lillies’; Rebellion Publishing IP Ltd for images from June and School Friend, Jinty, Tammy and Misty in Julia Round, ‘Horror Hosts in British Girls’ Comics’. ix Contents Introduction to the Gothic Handbook Series: Welcome to Hell ......... 1 Clive Bloom Global Gothics Latin American Horror ......................................... 31 Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno and Inés Ordiz Dark Tourism ................................................. 49 Joan Passey Two Twentieth-Century Mexican Writers .......................... 63 Antonio Alcalá González Dark Urbanity ................................................. 77 Tijana Parezanović and Marko Lukić Contemporary Australian Trauma ................................ 91 Jessica Gildersleeve Postcolonialisms ............................................... 105 Gina Wisker Strains of the South ............................................. 123 Naomi Simone Borwein Indigenous Alterations .......................................... 143 Angela Elisa Schoch/Davidson Hillbilly Horror ................................................ 163 Tosha R. Taylor Southern Agrarianism and Exploitation ............................ 181 Gerardo Del Guercio xi xii Contents Hostile Environments British ‘Hoodie’ Horror ......................................... 193 Lauren Stephenson Green Trends in Euro-Horror Films of the 1960s and 1970s ........... 211 David Annwn Jones Ecocriticism and the Genre ...................................... 225 Emily Alder and Jenny Bavidge The Wilderness ................................................ 243 Kaja Franck ‘Queer’ Representations of Rural and Urban Locations .............. 259 Paulina Palmer James Herbert’s Working-Class Horror ........................... 275 Simon Brown Re-defining the Genre with Mo Hayder ............................ 291 Sian MacArthur Stephen King .................................................. 303 Brian Jarvis Occult Gothic Aleister Crowley and Occult Meaning ............................. 321 James Machin Aleister Crowley and the Black Magic Story ........................ 337 Timothy Jones Gothic Romance The Gothic Romance ........................................... 357 Holly Hirst Georgette Heyer ............................................... 373 Holly Hirst The Body in Pieces Abjection and Body Horror ...................................... 393 Xavier Aldana Reyes Torture Porn .................................................. 411 Tosha R. Taylor Clive Barker’s Hellraiser ........................................ 431 Mark Richard Adams Contents xiii Psychological Gothic The Asylum ................................................... 449 Laura R. Kremmel Psychopaths, Sociopaths and the Psychotic Mind .................... 467 Lauren Ellis Christie Beyond the Unfeeling Narcissus to Patrick Bateman ................. 485 Robert K. Shepherd Zombie Gothic Zombie Folklore to Existential Protagonists ........................ 505 Kelly Gardner The Sentient Zombie ............................................ 521 Kelly Gardner New Vampire Gothic Transmedia Vampires ........................................... 541 Simon Bacon The Post-human Vampire ........................................ 555 Simon Bacon Monstrosity, Performativity, and Performance ...................... 569 Laura Davidel Young Gothic Encounters with the ‘Hidden’ World in Modern Children’s Fiction ..... 589 Chloé Germaine Buckley Gender and Sexuality in Young Adult Fiction ....................... 609 Michelle J. Smith and Kristine Moruzi Horror Hosts in British Girls’ Comics ............................. 623 Julia Round Lemony Snicket ................................................ 643 Valeria Iglesias-Plester Gothic Film Ghostly Gimmicks: Spectral Special Effects in Haunted House Films ... 661 Laura Sedgwick Universal Horror ................................................ 679 Brian Jarvis