by Matt Cardin
Jim Holte is a Professor of English and Film Studies at East Carolina University. He is editor of The Fantastic Vampire and author of Dracula in the Dark: The Dracula Film Adaptations. He has written extensively on film, horror, and fantasy.
Gary Hoppenstand is a professor in the Department of English at Michigan State University, and he currently serves as the Secretary for Academic Governance at MSU. He has published numerous books and articles in the field of popular culture studies, and has won Michigan State University’s 2008 Distinguished Faculty Award.
William Hughes is Professor of Medical Humanities and Gothic Literature at Bath Spa University, England. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of seventeen books, including That Devil’s Trick: Hypnotism and the Victorian Popular Imagination (2015), The Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature (2013), and EcoGothic (with Andrew Smith, 2013).
Timothy J. Jarvis is a writer and a lecturer in creative writing. He has research interests, as a practitioner and critic, in the fields of the Gothic and weird fiction, innovative fiction, digital fiction, contemporary literature, and creative writing pedagogy. His novel, The Wanderer, was published in the summer of 2014.
Brian Johnson is an Associate Professor of English at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. Recent publications include articles on posthumanism and ecology in Swamp Thing, H. P., Lovecraft, and Ridley Scott’s Alien films. His current research focuses on superheroes and melodrama.
S. T. Joshi is the author of The Weird Tale (1990), The Modern Weird Tale (2001), I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft (2010), and Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (2012). He is the editor of Supernatural Literature of the World: An Encyclopedia (2005) and American Supernatural Tales (2007).
Ian Kinane is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Roehampton, London. He researches and teaches in the areas of modern and contemporary literature, genre fiction, and global literatures.
Laura R. Kremmel holds a PhD from Lehigh University and is a visiting assistant professor at Lehigh. Her interests include Gothic literature, British Romanticism, medical humanities, history of medicine, and disability studies. She has published articles on Gothic studies, romanticism, and disability, and is co-editor of The Handbook to Horror Literature, forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan.
Lisa Kröger is a writer and editor living on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. She has a PhD in Gothic literature, focusing on women writers. Most recently, she edited an essay collection on the writings of Shirley Jackson, published with Routledge. She is also a member of the Horror Writers Association.
Rob Latham is an independent scholar living in Los Angeles. He is the author of Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption (Chicago 2002) and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction (Oxford 2014) and Science Fiction Criticism: Essential Writings (Bloomsbury 2017).
Chun H. Lee is an instructor at Brazosport College in Lake Jackson Texas. His work has appeared in Many Genres: One Craft, Dissections, and many others. His favorite class to teach is creative writing because seeing imagination at work is always rewarding.
Miles Link is a Research Associate in the School of English in Fudan University, Shanghai. He received his doctorate from Trinity College Dublin. He has published on the popular literature, television, and film of the Cold War, as well as the works of H. G. Wells and John Wyndham.
Roger Luckhurst teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London, and is the author of The Mummy’s Curse (2012) and Zombies: A Cultural History (2015).
James Machin undertook his doctoral thesis on late Victorian and Edwardian weird fiction at Birkbeck, University of London, where he also taught English literature. Since 2013, he has been the editor of Faunus: The Journal of the Friends of Arthur Machen.
Steven J. Mariconda’s literary criticism on weird fiction, with an emphasis on close reading and prose style, has been published in a variety of periodicals and collections over the past thirty years. He is the author of H. P. Lovecraft: Art, Artifact, and Reality (Hippocampus Press, 2013).
Helen Marshall is a Lecturer of Creative Writing and Publishing at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England. She has won the Sydney J. Bounds Award, World Fantasy Award, and Shirley Jackson Award, and she edited the 2017 edition of The Year’s Best Weird Fiction. Her debut novel Everything That Is Born will be published by Random House Canada in 2018.
Javier A. Martinez is an editor of the academic journal Extrapolation. His articles and reviews have appeared in Dead Reckonings, Extrapolation, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Science Fiction Studies, and elsewhere. He has served as department chair, college dean, and university provost, and is currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
Sean Matharoo is a PhD student of comparative literature at the University of California, Riverside, where he studies francophone and anglophone speculative media, postcolonial theory, ecological philosophy, speculative realism, and noise. He has a forthcoming article in a special issue of Horror Studies devoted to sonic horror.
Neil McRobert is a researcher in contemporary horror and Gothic culture. He completed his doctorate at the University of Stirling. His particular interests are experimental horror fiction and film, and the role of technology and the Internet in contemporary horror. Recent publications have focused on found footage cinema and the growth of online horror folklore.
Sean Moreland is a writer, editor, and educator, much of whose research concerns Gothic and horror fiction in its literary, sequential art, and cinematic guises. He teaches in the English Department at the University of Ottawa.
Will Murray is a lifelong scholar of pulp fiction, a contributor to Fangoria magazine, and the author of several celebrated Cthulhu Mythos anthology stories. Enormously prolific, he has penned some seventy novels in series ranging from The Destroyer to The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage. His latest work is King Kong vs. Tarzan.
Sorcha Ní Fhlainn is Lecturer in Film Studies and American Literature, and a founding member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is the author/editor of numerous publications and Reviews Editor for Gothic Studies. Forthcoming publications include Clive Barker: Dark Imaginer (2017) and Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture (2018).
Keith M. C. O’sullivan is Senior Rare Books Librarian at the University of Aberdeen, UK. He earned an MA in English from the University of Sussex and has also studied at the Universities of Surrey, Wales, and Stirling. He is currently researching on Ramsey Campbell and the Gothic tradition at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Elizabeth Parker has a PhD in English literature from Trinity College Dublin. She has been published in The Palgrave Companion to Literature and Horror (2017) and elsewhere, and she co-edited Between Space and Place: Landscapes of Liminality (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016). She is currently the TV editor of the Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies.
Bernard Perron is a Full Professor of Film and Game Studies at the University of Montreal, Canada. He is the editor of Horror Video Games (2009), the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Video Games Studies (2014) and Video Games and the Mind (2016), and the author of Silent Hill: The Terror Engine (2012). More information is at http://www.ludov.ca.
Hannah Priest is an academic writer and lecturer based in Manchester, UK. She has a PhD in late medieval literature, and her research interests include gender, violence, and monsters in popular culture. She has published on both medieval and contemporary popular fiction, including work on werewolves, cannibals, and fairies.
David Punter is a writer, poet, and critic, currently Professor of Poetry at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published critical monographs in many fields of literature, most notably the Gothic, but also including Romantic writing, contemporary fiction, and literary theory, as well as five small volumes of poetry.
Jean-Charles Ray is a PhD student in Film Studies at the Université de Mont
réal (Montreal, Canada) and in Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris, France). His main field of study is horror in literature and video games.
Brittany Roberts is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside, where she studies Russian and Anglophone horror, science fiction, and weird fiction. She is particularly interested in eco-horror and is currently writing a dissertation that considers the ecological possibilities raised by dark speculative literature and cinema.
Jim Rockhill has contributed to books devoted to E. T. A. Hoffmann, M. R. James, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Bob Leman, Jane Rice, and Clark Ashton Smith, as well as various encyclopedias and journals including Supernatural Literature of the World, Ghosts in Popular Culture and Legend, Dead Reckonings, and Lost Souls.
Travis Rozier earned his PhD in English at the University of Mississippi in 2015 and currently works as a lecturer in the English department at Texas A&M University. His areas of interest include literature of the U.S. South, Southern women writers, material culture, and weird fiction.
Darrell Schweitzer is a former editor of the legendary Weird Tales magazine, a critic, an essayist, and the author of books on Lord Dunsany and H. P. Lovecraft. He is also the author of three fantasy novels and about 300 short stories. A World Fantasy Award Winner, he lives in Philadelphia.
Brian J. Showers has written for publications such as Rue Morgue, Supernatural Tales, and Wormwood. He also edits The Green Book, a journal devoted to Irish writers of the fantastic, and runs the Swan River Press, Ireland’s only publishing house dedicated to literature of the Gothic, strange, and supernatural. He lives in Dublin.
Michael Siefener has worked as a freelance writer since 1992, publishing several novels and short stories, mostly in the fantastical vein. He received his LLD in 1991 but never worked as a lawyer. He was born in Cologne and currently lives in a small village in the Eifel, one of the westernmost parts of Germany.
Brian Stableford has been publishing fiction and nonfiction for fifty years. His most recent nonfiction projects are New Atlantis: A Narrative History of British Scientific Romance (Wildside Press, 2016) and The Plurality of Imaginary Worlds: The Evolution of French roman scientifique (Black Coat Press, 2016).
E. Kate Stewart holds a PhD from the University of Mississippi and serves as Professor of English at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. She has published on Edgar Allan Poe and Transcendentalism, and has contributed to several volumes of the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Her primary research interests involve nineteenth-century American fiction.
Joel T. Terranova received his PhD in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2015. Focusing on Gothic fiction of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, he has published a variety of scholarly works in this field. He also serves as the book review editor for Studies in Gothic Fiction.
Bev Vincent has a PhD in chemistry and is the author of forty peer-reviewed scientific articles. His work has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award (twice), the Edgar Award, and the Thriller Award. He has been a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine since 2001. His author site is bevvincent.com.
Hank Wagner is a respected critic and interviewer whose work has appeared in numerous genre publications such as Dead Reckonings, Cemetery Dance, Mystery Scene, and Crimespree. He is a co-author of The Complete Stephen King Universe and Prince of Stories: A Guide to the Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman. He also co-edited Thrillers: 100 Must Reads with David Morrell.
Mark Wegley currently teaches at Tacoma Community College and previously taught at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington and a master’s from Boise State University, where he completed a graduate thesis on the short fiction of J. Sheridan Le Fanu.
Lee Weinstein is a retired librarian and a lifelong horror fan. His essays have appeared in Studies in Weird Fiction, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and elsewhere. He is a current contributor to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and has edited several short story collections.
Jillian Wingfield is a PhD candidate and visiting lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire. Her research project is focused on American twenty-first-century vampire fiction, investigating vampire-human as well as intra-vampiric dynamics for what they reveal about a dialogue between genre and post-9/11 culturally dominant fears.
Gina Wisker is Professor of Contemporary Literature & Higher Education at the University of Brighton, UK. She is the author of, among others, Horror Fiction: An Introduction (2005) and Contemporary Women’s Gothic Fiction, and co-editor of the online horror journal Dissections. She is currently chair of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Association, an HEA Principal Fellow, and a National Teaching Fellow.
Index
Page locators in boldface indicate main entries in the Encyclopedia.
Ackroyd, Peter
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein, 129
The House of Doctor Dee, 133–134
Adams, John Joseph, 156
Addison, Joseph, 20
The Spectator (Addison), 20
Aeneid (Virgil), 7
Aeschylus
The Oresteia, 107
Aickman, Robert (1914–1981), 177–179
Aickman’s Heirs, 179
The Attempted Rescue, 178
British Fantasy Award, 178
Campbell, Ramsey, on, 270
“The Cicerones,” 177
compositional strategies, 178–179
critical writings of, 178
Dark Entries, 178
date of birth, 178
death of, 179
Fontana series Great Ghost Stories, 178
Freudian psychoanalysis, 178
full name of, 177
Howard, Elizabeth Jane, and, 178
influence of, 179
influence of Borges on, 235
James, M. R., and, 30
The Late Breakfasters, 178, 179
Marsh, Richard, and, 178
The Model, 179
parents of, 178
“Ringing the Changes,” 709–710
the term “strange,” 178
We Are for the Dark, 178
World Fantasy Award, 178
Aiken, Conrad
Freud, Sigmund, 752
“Mr. Arcularis,” 624–625
“Silent Snow, Secret Snow,” 752–753
Aikin, Anna Laetitia, 73
Ainsworth, William Harrison (1805–1882), 179–181
City of Manchester honor, 180
early stories of, 180
general academic consensus of, 180–181
Guy Fawkes, 180
Jack Sheppard, 180
Lovecraft, H. P., on, 180
Mitchell, Rosemary, on, 181
obituaries of, 180
Old St. Paul’s, 180
reputation of, 180
The Tower of London, 180
Windsor Castle, 180
Akerman, John Y.
Tales of Other Days (Akerman), 86
Alcott, Louisa May (1832–1888), 182–184
“The Abbot’s Ghost” (1867, 1975), 183
“Behind a Mask” (1866, 1975), 183
con artist narratives, 183
death and burial of, 183
her 1860s thriller career, 183
The Inheritance (1849, 1997), 182
The Little Women Trilogy, 182
Long Fatal Love Chase (1866, 1995), 183
“Lost in a Pyramid” (1869, 1998), 183
A Modern Mephistopheles (1877), 183
“The Mysterious Key” (1867, 1975), 183
overview of, 182
“Pauline’s Passion & Punishment” (1863, 1975), 183
“V. V.” (1865, 1976), 183
“A Whisper in the Dark” (1863, 1976), 183
Aldiss, Brian, 102, 126
Frankenstein Unbound, 129
Alien (1979), 63
Allen, Grant
Allred, Michael, 872
Alone with the Horrors (Campbell), 184–185
“Cold Print,” 184
Dark Companions, 184
date published, 184
Demons by Daylight, 184
description of, 184
full title of, 184
“Mackintosh Willy,” 184
selection of stories, 184
World Fantasy Award, 185
Alraune, 185–186
Alraune-creature, 185, 186
as a comic book, 186
Endore, S. Guy, 185
Ewers, Hanns Heinz, 185
film versions, 186
legend of the mandrake root, 185
mandragora myth, 185–186
naming of, 185
original language of, 185
plot summary, 185
in the twenty-first century, 186
Amazing Stories, 102
An American Crime film, 386
American International Pictures, 138
“The American Nightmare,” 98
ancestral curse, 186–189
Blackwood stories and, 188
Bleak House (Dickens), 188
The Bride of Lammermoor (Scott), 188
The Castle of Otranto (Walpole), 187
clan curses, 188
content of curses, 187
Cowdray Curse, 187
“The Curse” (1832), 188
curses defined, 186
curse tablets (defixiones), 187
evil eye, 187
“execration texts,” 186
family curse stories, 187
the Gothic and family curses, 187
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Doyle), 188
house curse, 188
magical thinking, 188
Melmoth the Wanderer (Maturin), 187
The Monk (Lewis), 187, 820
Old Testament curses, 187
recursive, 187
retributive justice and, 188
ritual forms of curses, 186
Roman curses, 187
“threat formulas,” 186–187
Tichbornes curse, 187–188
Tut’s Curse, 188
ancient Greece, 3
Anderson, Sherwood, 366, 405
Andreyev, Leonid
