Introduction / Catherine Spooner, Emma McEvoy -- Gothic traditions / Emma McEvoy -- Eighteenth-century Gothic / Robert Miles -- Gothic and the romantics / Emma McEvoy -- Victorian Gothic / Alexandra Warwick -- Gothic in the twentieth century / Catherine Spooner -- Gothic locations / Catherine Spooner, Emma McEvoy -- Gothic cities / Robert Mighall -- American Gothic / Teresa A. Goddu -- Scottish Gothic / Angela Wright -- Irish Gothic / Richard Haslam -- Gothic and empire / James Procter, Angela Smith -- Canadian Gothic / Coral Ann Howells -- Australian Gothic / Ken Gelder -- Gothic concepts / Emma McEvoy, Catherine Spooner -- The uncanny / David Punter -- Abject and grotesque / Kelly Hurley -- Hauntings / Andrew Smith -- Gothic femininities / Alison Milbank -- Gothic masculinities / Brian Baker -- Queer Gothic / Ellis Hanson -- Gothic children / Sue Walsh -- Gothic media / Catherine Spooner -- Gothic culture / Fred Botting -- Contemporary Gothic theatre / Emma McEvoy -- Gothic-film-parody / Kamilla Elliott -- Contemporary horror cinema / Benjamin Hervey -- Gothic television / Eddie Robson -- Gothic and the graphic novel / Andy W. Smith -- Gothic music and subculture / Paul Hodkinson -- Gothic and new media / Jason Whittaker.