A Companion to American Gothic features a collection of original essays that explore America’s gothic literary tradition. The largest collection of essays in

This Companion offers a thorough overview of the diversity of the American Gothic tradition from its origins to the present.

Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on

Defining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years, as well as with

A Companion to American Gothic features a collection of original essays that explore America’s gothic literary tradition. The largest collection of essays in