Gothic and Horror

Read a selection of articles from open access journal Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.

• Is Lennie a monster? A reconsideration of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men in a 21st century inclusive classroom context
• “I’m all that stands between them and chaos:” a monstrous way of ruling in A Song of Ice and Fire
• The vampirisation of the novel: narrative crises in Dracula
• Gothic fairy-tales and Deleuzian desire
• Poe, insanity, and containing the feminine monstrous
• Monsters at bedtime: managing fear in bedtime picture books for children
• ‘Terrible monsters Sin-bred’: Blakean monstrosity in Alan Moore’s graphic novels
• Monsters in the dark: the discovery of Thuggee and demographic knowledge in colonial India
• Bartlebys: Gothicizing office fiction
• “A ghost in daylight”: drugs and the horror of modernity
• Monstering: a transdisciplinary method for an unstable world
• The evolution of monsters in children’s literature
• Monsters and the pantomime
• Anatomy of tragedy: the skeptical gothic in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
• Edgar Allan Poe in Transylvania: Poe’s short stories and gothic elements in nineteenth century Romanian literature