The Gothic Vision

Introduction The frame of reference: theoretical debates on horror, terror and fear Part I: Darkness Introduction - Dark places - Dark times - Dark psyches Part II: Haunting Introduction - The rhetoric of haunting - Spectral forms - Haunting settings Part III: Narrative and the self Introduction - Words and visions - Textual identities - Storytelling as therapy Part IV: Child and adult Introduction - Families - The abandoned child - Childhood and otherness Part V: Monstrosity Introduction - Vampires - Hybrid and grotesque bodies - The abject Epilogue

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