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A b é , K o¯b o ¯ Alcott, Bronson 155, 159 Box Man, The 522 Alcott, Louisa May 10, 144 Face of Another, The 522 Behind a Mask, 144 “Irrelevant Death, An” 522 Alcuin (Brown) 116 infl uenced by Poe 521–2 Alexie, Sherman: Indian Killerr 228, 230, “Life of a Poet, The” 522 232 Secret Rendezvous 522 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 488, 491–2 “Stick, The” 522 Alfredson, Thomas: Let the Right One In Abraham, Nicholas 8 (fi lm) 547, 548–9, 554–7 Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner) 179, 182–4, Alien (fi lm, Scott) 51 421, 527 Allen, Walter: The English Novell 203 Adams, Henry: Mont-St. Michel and Almanac of the Deadd (Silko) 453 Chartres 1 4 7 Althusser, Louis 10, 164 Adams, Jeffrey Alvarez, A. 329 “Demon, The” (audio drama) 472 Amari, Carl 471–2, 473 “Thing on Ice, The” (audio drama) 472 American Appetites (Oates) 308–9 Addams Family, The (TV series) 492 American Gothicc (Ringe) 12 “Advance Notice” (Matheson) 214 American Gothic (TV series, Cassidy) 488, “Afterwards” (WhartonCOPYRIGHTED) 48 494 , MATERIAL496–7 A gamben, Georgio 410, 416 American Gothic: New Interventions in a Age of Reason, The (Paine) 113 National Narrative (Martin and A guirresarobe, Javier 447 Savoy) 6, 87, 95, 163, 176, 249, Ainsworth, William Harrison 27 253, 327, 403, 535, 545 Alan Wake (digital game) 507–10 American Hieroglyphics (Irwin) 8

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American Psycho (B. E. Ellis) 65, 452 Bachman, Richard (see King, Stephen) American Scene, The (H. James) 191, Bacon, Josephine Daskam 143–4 194–6, 197 Baddeley, Gavin 4 90, 491, 497 American Slavery as It Is (Weld) 79–81 Baker, Dorothy Z. 148 Amityville Horrorr (novel, fi lm and Bakhtin, Mikhail 8 sequels) 19, 320, 324 Baldick, Chris 165 Anasazi see Indians (American) Ball, Alan Anaya, Rudolfo: B less Me, Ultima 453 Six Feet Under (TV series) 498–9 Anderson, Paul W. S.: Event Horizon True Blood (TV series) 499–500 (fi lm) 5 0 9 Ballard, J. G.: “Low-Flying Aircraft” 4 51 André (Dunlap) 100, 104 Barker, James Nelson Andromeda Strain, The (fi lm, Wise) 53 Marmion 9 6–7, 103–5 Andromeda Strain, The (novel, Crichton) 53 Superstition 1 04 Angel Heartt (fi lm, Parker) 46 Barnum, P.T. 44 Ann Radcliffe in Relation to Her Time Barrens, The (Oates, as Rosamond (McIntyre) 203 Smith) 3 1 2 “Ann Rice and the Queering of Culture” Barry, Linda: Crudd y: An Illustrated (Haggarty) 341, 342–3 Novell 405–17 Another Life (Walcott) 22–3 Barthes, Roland 57 Antelope Wife (Erdrich) 231 “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (Melville) 160 Apt Pupill (S. King) 321 Baudrillard, Jean 57 Arkham House 274–5 Baum, L. Frank Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic Mary Louise 207 (Williams) 409 Secret of the Lost Fortune, The 205 Arthur Mervyn; or Memoirs of the Year 1793 Beal, Timothy K. 4 5 (Brown) 1 1 0 , 117–19, 127–8, 132 “Beautiful Stranger, The” (S. Jackson) 322 “Artist of the Beautiful, The” “Because I could not stop for Death” (Hawthorne) 151 (Dickinson) 331 A simov, Isaac: I, Robott 50 Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart Asma, Stephen T. 538 (Oates) 308–9 “Asphodel” (Welty) 185 Beckford, William: Vathek 72, 490 “Assignation, The” (Poe) 106 “Beezer ’ s Cellar” (radio drama, W. Asylum: Or, Alonso and Melissa. An American Cooper) 469 Tale, Founded on Fact, The “Beheading, The” (radio drama, Eric) 4 70 (Mitchell) 1 47 Behind a Mask (Alcott) 1 44 At the Mountains of Madness (Lovecraft) 270 Bell, Book and Candle (fi lm, Quine) 47 Atkins, Barry 5 0 5 Bellamy, Edward: Looking Backwardd 449 Auerbach, Nina: Our Vampires, Bellefl eurr (Oates) 3 0 8 Ourselves 550 –1 “Belles Demoiselles Plantation” A usten, Jane: Northanger Abbey 203 (Cable) 179–80 Austin, William: “The Missing Man” 141 Belovedd (Morrison) 21, 48, 82, 250, 378, Avalos, Stefan: The Last Broadcastt (fi lm, with 379, 380–1, 389, 421, 453 Weller) 52 Ben (fi lm, Karlson) 53 Avatarr (fi lm, Cameron) 52 Benchley, Peter: Jaws (novel) 53 Aw, Tash: The Harmony-Silk Factory 528 Beneath the American Renaissance Axelrod, Steven Gould 334 (Reynolds) 143, 148 Index 561

Benet, Stephen Vincent: “The Devil and Bless Me, Ultima (Anaya) 4 53 Daniel Webster” 141 “Blind Willie McTell” (Dylan) 18–26 Benito Cereno (Melville) 44 , 72 Blithedale Romance, The (Hawthorne) 154, “Berenice” (Poe) 47 156, 160–1 Bergland, Renée 236, 324, 367, 374, Blood Mask (Oates, as Lauren Kelly) 312 375n9 Blood Meridian, Or the Evening Redness in the Bergman, Ingmar: The Virgin Springg 5 4 9 West (McCarthy) 32–3, 34–7, Berne, Suzanne: A Crime in the 397–400 Neighborhoodd 321 Bloodsmoor Romance, A (Oates) 308 Between Men (Sedgwick) 11 Bloom, Harold 353–6 Bewitchedd (TV): 47, 319, 323 Boaden, James: Fontainville Forestt 103 “Beyond the Wall” (Bierce) 220 Boarded-up House, The (Seaman) 205 Bid Time Return (Matheson) 219–20 Boat to Redemption, The (Tong) 526–7 Bierce, Ambrose 212–22 Bobs, a Girl Detective (C. Norton) 2 0 5 and Lovecraft 217 Bodie, California (ghost town) 30 “Beyond the Wall” 220 Bogdanovich, Peter: Targets (fi lm) 321 Can Such Things Be? 2 1 6 Bone (Ng) 252, 255–9 “Chickamauga” 215 Boorman, John: Deliverance (fi lm) 508 “Damned Thing, The” 217 Border Trilogy, The (McCarthy) 25, 397 “Death of Halpin Frayser, The” 4 7–8, “Born of Man and Woman” 218 (Matheson) 2 1 7 Devil ’ s Dictionary, The 2 1 6, 218, 219 Botting, Fred 29, 65, 235n “Middle Toe of the Right Foot, “Bottle Imp, The” (Stevenson) 20 The” 218 Box Man, The (Abé) 5 2 2 “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Boyden, Joseph: Three Day Roadd 228, An” 217 231 “Realm of the Unreal, The” 217 Bradbury, Ray: “Something Wicked This Tales of Soldiers and Civilians 216 Way Comes” 4 6 Big Sleep, The (Chandler) 477 Bradford, William 4 3, 124–5 Bigfoot 52 Bradstreet, Anne 4 5 Binding of Isaac, The (digital game) 507 Braidotti, Rosi: Transpositions 412–13 “Biography of a Story” (S. Jackson) 146 “Brain of Dr. Vicente, The” (Oates) 310 Bioshock (digital game) 507 Brainard, J.G.C.: “The Newport Bird, Robert Montgomery Tower” 145 Caridorf; or, The Avengerr 101 Brave New Worldd (Huxley) 452 Cowled Lover, The 101 Breaking Dawn (Myer) 44 3 Gladiator, The 101 Brite, Poppy Z. 4 34–5, 440–1 Nick of the Woods 4 3 Lost Souls 3 42, 348–51, 435–7 Pelopidas 1 01 Swamp Foetus/Wormwoodd 435–6 Birds, The ( fi lm, Hitchcock) 53, 508 Britt, Theron 171–2 Birds, The (novel, du Maurier) 53 Britzolakis, Christina 328, 335 Bird ’ s Nest, The (S. Jackson) 291 Brogan, Kathleen: Cultural Hauntingg 48, “Birth-Mark, The” (Hawthorne) 49 82, 232, 453 “Black Cat, The” (Poe) 47, 153, 156 Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre 7 3 , 203–4 Black Waterr (Oates) 309 Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights 328, Blade Runner (fi lm, Scott) 50 330, 331 562 Index

Broughton, F. Lusk: Gyp sy, the Girl Cable, George Washington: “Belles Ferret 204, 207 Demoiselles Plantation” 179–80 Brown, Alice 144 Cad Metti, the Female Detective Strategist Brown, Charles Brockden 3–4, 10, 100, (Halsey) 206 110–21, 213, 226 Caillois, Roger 505 Alcuin 116 Califi a, Pat: “The Vampire” 4 38–9 Arthur Mervyn; or Memoirs of the Year “Call of Cthulhu, The” (Lovecraft) 271, 511 1793 , 110, 117–19, 127–8, 132 Cameron, James: Ava tarr (fi lm) 52 Clara Howardd 1 1 3 Campbell, Joseph: Hero with a Thousand Edgar Huntly; or Memoirs of a Sleep- Faces 3 62 Walker 43, 84, 89, 90, 92, 110, 112, Can Such Things Be? (Bierce) 2 1 6 119–21, 226, 227, 229, 235n4 Canary, Robert H. W illiam Dunlap 101 Jane Talbott 113 Card, Orson Scott: Ender ’ s Game 51–2 Ormond; or the Secret Witness 110–12, Cardos, John: Kingdom of the Spiders 115–17 (fi lm) 53 Wieland, Or The Transformation. An Caretakers (T. King) 142 American Tale 20–1, 84, 104, 110 , Caridorf; or, The Avengerr (Bird) 101 112, 113–15 , 494 Carmilla (Le Fanu) 344, 138 Brown, Himan 4 69, 471 Carnivàle (TV series) 488 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 143 Carpenter, John: Halloween (fi lm) 321, 463 Browning, Robert: “Mr. Sludge, ‘The Carpenter, Lynette 293 Medium’ ” 143 Haunting the House of Fiction (with Browning, Tod Kolmar) 1 0 Dracula (fi lm) 305–6, 463 Carpentier, Alejo: Th e Kingdom of this Freaks (fi l m ) 44 Worldd 2 3 4 Bruchac, Joseph: W hisper in the Carrie (S. King) 353, 356 Dark 229–30 Carroll, Jonathan 66 Bruhm, Steven 251 Carson, Rachel: Silent Springg 325 Buck, Douglas: F amily Portraits: A Trilogy of Carter, Angela: “The Fall River Axe America (fi lm) 321 Murders” 144 Buell, Lawrence 155 Carter, Chris: T he X Files (TV series) 4 5, Buffy Between the Lines ( podcast series) 4 72 52, 488, 497 Buffy the Vampire Slayerr (TV series, Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Whedon) 4 7, 323, 440, 497–8, 504 (Lovecraft) 143, 269–70, 273, 274 Bungalow Mystery, The (Wirt and “Cask of Amontillado, The” (Poe) 21, 24, Stratemeyer) 2 0 8 156, 159, 287n5 Buntline, Ned: The Mysteries and Miseries of Cassidy, Shaun: American Gothicc (TV New York 131 series) 488, 494, 496–7 Burdick, Emily Miller: E ngendering Castle of Otranto, The (Walpole) 4 , 8, 9, 11, Romance 1 0 177, 202, 225, 268, 422, 494 Burgess, Anthony: A Clockwork Orange 4 52 Castle of Wolfenbach, The (Parsons) 202 Burke, Edmund 178 Castricano, Jodey 2 3 4 Burton, Tim: Sleepy Hollow (fi lm) 47, 550 “Cat of My Mother, The” (Fuentes) Butler, Judith 10 539–40, 542–3, 544 Cat ’ s Cradle (Vonnegut) 4 51 Cabinet of Dr. Caligari , The (fi lm, CBS Radio Mystery Theaterr 469–70 Weine) 4 75, 478–9, 481, 483 Celll (S. King) 50 Index 563

Ceremony (Silko) 232, 233, 453 “Circumstance” (Spofford) 90, 91 “Chac Mool” (Fuentes) 538–9, 541–2, 544 Citro, Joseph A. 141–2 Chambers, Ross 294–5 Cursed in New Englandd 141 Chandler, Raymond: Th e Big Sleep 477 City Crimes (G. Thompson) 133 Chang, Juliana 259 Clara Howardd (Brown) 113 C hang, Lan Samantha: “Hunger” 257 C lavin, Matt 72 Channing, William Ellery 152 Clemens, Samuel L. see Twain, Mark Chapman, Alison 111 Clockwork Orange, A (novel, Burgess) 4 52 Chatterbox Audio Theater 4 72–3 Clockwork Orange, A (fi lm, Kubrick) 4 52 Cheng, Ann Anlin: The Melancholy of Coad, Oral S. 102 Race 251 –2 Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome 4 2 Chesnutt, Charles 238–48 Coherence of Gothic Conventions, The (E. K. Conjure Woman, The 238–9 Sedgwick) 7, 92 “Conjurer ’ s Revenge, The” 239 Cold War 214, 218, 322, 328–39, 451, “Dave ’ s Neckliss” 242–3 454–5, 476, 494 “Goophered Grapevine, The” 241–2 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 3–4 House Behind the Cedars, The 238 Collector of Hearts, The (Oates) 3 1 0 “Marked Tree, The” 181 “Colossus, The” (Plath) 329, 335–6 Marrow of Tradition, The 238 “Colour Out of Space, The” (Lovecraft) 271 “Mars Jeems ’ s Nightmare” 239 Come Along With Me (S. Jackson) 301 “Sheriff ’ s Children, The” 243–6 Comfort Woman (Keller) 2 5 1 Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur see Doyle, Sir Color Line, The 2 38 Arthur Conan “Chickamauga” (Bierce) 215 Confi dence Man, The (Melville) 160 “Chicken Heart” (radio drama, Conjure Wife (Leiber) 2 9 3 Oboler) 468 Conjure Woman, The (Chesnutt) 238–9 Child, Francis James 147–8 “Conjurer ’ s Revenge, The” (Chesnutt) 239 Child is Being Killed: Primary Narcissism and Conner, Charlotte Barnes: Octavia the Death Drive, A (Leclaire) 372–3 Bragaldi 99 Child of God (McCarthy) 396–7 “Conqueror Worm, The” (Poe) 106 “Childless Women” (Plath) 3 3 8 Constantine (fi lm, Lawrence) 4 6 children 37, 44, 48, 58, 88, 89, 91, Cooke, Rose Terry 1 44 112–14, 116, 117, 133, 140, 144, Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth 227, 228 166, 190, 215–16, 217, 232, 235n4, Cooper, James Fenimore 226 252, 257, 259, 290, 299–300, 306, Last of the Mohicans, The 43, 85, 90, 92 309, 310, 311, 320–1, 324, 336–8, Lionel Lincoln 85 343–52, 366–77, 378, 380–9, 395, Prairie, The 85, 92 397, 400, 405–17, 428, 435–9, Wept of Wish-ton-Wish, The 105 443–4, 457, 459, 467–8, 494, 496, Cooper, Wyllis 527, 547–58 “Beezer ’ s Cellar” (radio drama) 469 Children of Men (novel, P. D. James, and “Let the Lilies Consider” (radio fi l m ) 457 drama) 4 69 Childwoldd (Oates) 308 “Tanglefoot” (radio drama) 469 Christopherson, Bill 43, 114 “Thing on the Fourble Board” (radio chupacabra 52–3 drama) 4 69 Chute, Carolyn 146 “Whence Came You?” (radio Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Pro Cluentio 115 drama) 4 69 564 Index

Coover, Robert: Ghost Town 32–4 Daniels, Les 142 Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares, The Danse Macabre (S. King) 357, 494 (Oates) 311 “Dark, The” (radio drama, Oboler) 4 68 Count Zero (Gibson) 4 19, 426 Dark Fantasy (radio series) 4 67, 468 “Courtship of Miles Standish, The” Dark Half, The (S. King) 57–65, 361 (Longfellow) 548 Dark Mirror, The (fi lm, Siodmak) 4 85 Cowan, Douglas E. 4 1–2, 43 Dark Shadows (TV series, Curtis) 4 88, Cowled Lover, The (Bird) 101 493–4 Cox, Jeffrey N. 97 Dark Tower, The (S. King) 354–5 Crack in the Picture Window, The Darkness of Saint Louis Bearheart (Keats) 3 1 6 (Vizenor) 228, 230, 231, 453 Crafts, Hannah 81–2 Daughters of Darkness (Keesey) 4 38–9 Crane, Stephen: The Monster 41, 48 “Dave ’ s Neckliss” (Chesnutt) 242–3 Craven, Wes Davidson, Cathy N.: Th e Experimental Invitation to Helll 3 2 4 Fictions of Ambrose Bierce 217 Last House on the Left, The 5 49 Davis, Mike: Ecology of Fearr 449–50 People Under the Stairs, The 319, 321 Dawn of the Deadd (Romero) 3 2 2 Creeps by Nightt (radio series) 467 Day After Tomorrow, The (fi lm) 5 0 Crèvecoeur, J. Hector St. John de: Letters Day of Doom, The (Wigglesworth) 368, from an American Farmerr 121 450 Crichton, Michael: The Andromeda Strain De Beauvoir, Simone: Th e Second Sex 9 (novel) 53 “De Grey: A Romance” (H. James) 189 Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia: Fiction, de la Vega, Garcilaso: Th e Florida of the Film, and Social Change Inca 8 6–7 (Nestingen) 552 De Loutherbourg, Philippe Jacques 4 90 Crime in the Neighborhood, A (Berne) 321 “Dead Girl, The” (audio drama, Criss Cross (fi lm, Siodmak) 4 85 Hatley) 472 Cronin, Justin: The Passage 3 63 “Dead Ship of Harpswell, The” “Crossroads, The” (Lowell) 145 (Whittier) 145 Crota (Goingback) 228 Dead Until Dark (Harris) 44 1–2 Crow, Charles L. 177, 215, 478 Dead Zone, The (S. King) 361 Crucible, The (Miller) 47, 141, 514 “Death & Co.” (Plath) 329 Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel “Death of Halpin Frayser, The” (Barry) 4 05–17 (Bierce) 47–8, 218 Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan, Jr. 4 19 “Death Ship” (Matheson) 220 Cujo (fi lm, Teague) 53 Del Toro, Guillermo: Th e Strain (novel and Cujo (novel, S. King) 53 sequels, with Hogan, Chuck) 53 Cultural Haunting (Brogan) 48, 82, 232, DeLamotte, Eugenia 292 453 Deleuze, Giles 4 52 Currie, Andrew: Fido ( fi lm) 319 Deliverance ( fi lm, Boorman) 508 Cursed in New Englandd (Citro) 141 Deliverance (novel, Dickey) 421 Curtis, Dan: Dark Shadows (TV “Demon, The” (Oates) 310 series) 4 88, 493–4 Demon and Other Tales (Oates) 3 1 0 “Demon Tree, The” (radio drama) 4 68 “Daddy” (Plath) 328, 329, 334–5, 336 Derleth, August 274 D ’A mmassa, Don: The Gargoyle 1 42 Derounian-Stodola, Kathryn Zabelle 85, “Damned Thing, The” (Bierce) 217 89 Index 565

Derrida, Jacques 7, 8, 31–2, 57 Dr. Grimshawe ’ s Secret (Hawthorne) 140, Desire Under the Elms (O ’ Neill) 1 46 269 Desperate Housewives 323, 324 Dr. Mabuse the Gamblerr (fi lm, Lang) Detourr (fi lm, Ulmer) 485 479–80 “Devil and Daniel Webster, The” Dracula (fi lm, Browning) 305–6, 463 (Benet) 141 “Dracula” (radio adaptations) 4 65, 466, Devil ’ s Advocate, The (fi lm, Hackford) 4 6 470 Devil ’ s Dictionary, The (Bierce) 216, 218, Dracula (Stoker) 143, 305, 344 219 “Dracula of the Hills, A” (Lowell) 145 Dexter (TV series) 45 Dreaming in Cuban (Garcia) 453 Dick, Philip K.: Do Androids Dream of “Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, The” Electric Sheep? 50 (Lovecraft), 270 Dickens, Charles: G reat Expectations 101 “Dreams in the Witch House, The” Dickey, James: Deliverance 421 (Lovecraft) 141 Dickinson, Emily 1 45 “Drowne ’ s Wooden Image” “Because I could not stop for (Hawthorne) 151 Death” 331 D u Bois, W. E. B. 179 Dinelli, Mel: “The Ten Years” (radio Du Maurier, Daphne: The Birds 53 drama) 467–8 Duel (fi lm, Matheson) 216, 218 Dinesen, Isak: Seven Gothic Tales 5 49 Dunlap, William 100 disability studies 11–12 André 100, 104 “Disappearing Act” (Matheson) 217–18 Fontainville Abbey 98, 99, 100, 103 Disease 53, 116–18, 126, 127–8, 214, “Ghost Murderer, The” 100 362, 441, 449, 500, 552 History of American Theatre 97 “Disquieting Muses, The” (Plath) 330, “It Might Have Been Better, It Might 338 Have Been Worse” 1 0 0 Dixon, Wheeler Winston 4 55 Leicesterr 100, 102–3 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Man of Fortitude, The 101 (Dick) 5 0 Ribbemont, or the Feudal Baron 98, 100, “Dogs in Winter” (Robinson) 229 101 Dolores Claiborne (S. King) 145, 355, 359 Dunsany, Lord 2 7 0 Donaldson, Scott: T he Suburban Myth “Dunwich Horror, The” (Lovecraft) 272 317 Dustan, Hannah. See “Narrative of Hannah Donnie Darko (R. Kelly) 321 Dustan, The” doppelgänger see doubles Dwight, Timothy: Travels in New England Double Indemnity (fi lm, Wilder) 4 85–6 and New York 88 doubles 57, 61, 72, 114, 118–19, D ylan, Bob: “Blind Willie McTell” 18–26 156–8, 165–75, 192, 234, 257–9, 263, 273, 280, 282, 285, 305, 312, Earthquake (fi l m ) 450 318, 323, 477–8, 479–80, 482–5, “Earth ’ s Holocaust” (Hawthorne) 1 60 494, 495, 522 Ecology of Fearr (Davis) 449–50 Douglas, Mary 2 9 4, 298 Écrits (Lacan) 8 Douglass, Frederick: The Narrative of E del, Leon (ed.): The Ghostly Tales of Henry Frederick Douglass 7 3, 81 James 189 Doyle, Laura 71, 72, 73, 81 Edgar Huntly; or Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: “The Valley of (Brown) 4 3, 84, 89, 90, 92, 110, Fear” 1 7 112, 119–21, 226, 227, 229, 235n4 566 Index

“EDickinsonRepliLuxe” (Oates) 311 Eureka (Poe) 1 5 1 Edwards, Jonathan: “Sinners in the Hands of “Event” (Plath) 337 an Angry God” (sermon) 46, 368 Event Horizon (fi lm, Anderson) 509 Edwards, Justin 260 Expensive People (Oates) 3 2 1 E gan, Jennifer 66 Experimental Fictions of Ambrose Bierce, The E gan, Pierce: Life in London 1 2 8 (Davidson) 217 “Egotism; Or, The Bosom Serpent” Expressionist Film: New Perspectives (Hawthorne) 1 5 6 (Scheunemann) 481 Eisner, Lotte: T he Haunted Screen 4 81 “Electra on Azalea Path” (Plath) 331 Face of Another, The (Abé) 522 “Eleonora” (Poe) 4 7 “Face of the Tenant, The” 87, 227, 228, Eliot, T. S. 3–4 249–50, 259–60 Ellis, Bret Easton 166n Fair, Benjamin 4 19, 421 American Psycho 6 5 , 452 Fair Maiden, A (Oates) 307 Glamorama 4 52 Faithless (Oates) 3 1 1 Less Than Zero 6 5 “Fall of the House of Usher, The” Lunar Park 58–65, 452 (Poe) 24, 47, 152–3, 177, 178–9, Ellis, David R.: Snakes on a Plane (fi lm) 5 3 184 Ellison, Harlan 355 “Fall River Axe Murders, The” “Elvis is Dead, Why Are You Alive?” (Carter) 1 4 4 (Oates) 310 Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America ( fi lm, “Embroidered Shoes and the Vexation of Buck) 321 Old Lady Yuan, The” (Xue) 525 Fangoria ’ s Dreadtime Stories (web-based audio Emerson, Ralph Waldo 151–63 series) 471–2 Nature 152, 155 Fatal Deception, or the Progress of Guilt, The. Emily Dickinson ’ s Gothic (Wardrop) 145 See Leicesterr (Dunlap) Emmerich, Roland Fatal Revenge; or, The Family of Montorio Day After Tomorrow, The (fi lm) 50 (Maturin) 102 Independence Day (fi lm) 5 1 Fathers, The (Tate) 1 8 4 Empire City, The (Lippard) 129 Faulkner, William Ender ’ s Game (novel, Card) 51–2 Absalom, Absalom! 179, 182–4, 421, Enemy Mine (fi lm, Peterson) 52 527 “ Enemy Mine” (story, Longyear) 5 2 and Asian writers 525–32 Engendering Romance (Burdick) 10 Light in Augustt 183, 528 English Hours (H. James) 194, 197 Sound and the Fury, The 527, 528 English Novel, The (Allen) 2 0 3 Felman, Shoshana 194 “Enoch Arden” (Tennyson) 101 Female Gothic, The (Fleenor) 10 Erdrich, Louise Female of the Species, The (Oates) 311 Antelope Wife 2 31 Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan) 292, 322 Tracks 48, 232, 233 Feminism 9–10 Eric, Elspeth: “The Beheading” (radio “Festival, The” (Lovecraft) 268 drama) 470 “Fever 103°” (Plath) 329 Escape! (radio series) 466 Fido (fi lm, Currie) 319 “Ethan Brand” (Hawthorne) 1 5 6 Fiedler, Leslie: Love and Death in the Ethan Frome (Wharton) 1 46 American Novell xvii, 3, 5–7, 13, 56, Eugenides, Jeffrey: Th e Virgin 85, 110, 226, 393, 450, 488 Suicides 320–1 fi lm noir 475–87 Index 567

Finney, Jack: Invasion of the Body Gable, Harvey L., Jr . 1 5 6 Snatchers 318, 322 Garcia, Cristina: Dreaming in Cuban 453 First Love (Oates) 3 0 9 Garden of Earthly Delights, A (Oates) 308 Fiskadoru ( Johnson) 458–9 Gardens in the Dunes (Silko) 453 Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby 2 7 Gargoyle, The (D ’ Ammassa) 1 42 Fleenor, Julianne: The Female Gothicc 1 0 Gate, The (fi l m ) 324 Fleisher, Ruben: Zombieland (fi lm) 53 Gates, Henry Lewis, Jr.: In Search of Hannah Fleming, Sanford 369 Crafts (with Robbins) 81–2 Fletcher, Lucille: “Sorry, Wrong Number” Geertz, Clifford 12 (radio drama) 468 Generation Loss (Hand) 1 4 5 Florida of the Inca, The (de la Vega) 86–7 George, Diana Hume 4 96 Florin, Lambert 31 Gerald’ s Game (S. King) 355 “Fly, The” (story, Langelaan) 4 9 “Getting There” (Plath) 334 Fog, The (S. King) 512 “Ghost Murderer, The” (Dunlap) 100 Fontainville Abbey (Dunlap) 98, 99, 100, Ghost Singerr (Walter) 228, 233 103 Ghost Town (Coover) 3 2 – 4 Fontainville Forestt (Boaden) 103 Ghost Towns (Thornton) 3 4 Foster, George “Ghostly Rental, The” (H. James) 192 New York by Gaslightt 129 Ghostly Tales of Henry James, The ( James, ed. New York in Slices 129 Edel) 189 Foucalt, Michel 12, 29–30, 57, 164 g hosts 8, 22–3, 29–40, 45, 47–8, 58, 62, Frankenstein (Shelley) 49, 56, 64, 65, 72, 64, 71, 82, 142–5, 148, 167, 180, 424, 425–6 183, 184, 189–200, 201, 205, 216, Freaks (fi lm, Browning) 44 218–19, 220, 226–35, 240, 246, 251, Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins 270, 280, 294, 297–8, 305, 310, 320, “Hall Bedroom, The” 144 331–2, 333–5, 372–5, 380, 389, 422, “Lost Ghost, The” 4 8 424, 427, 429n5, 453, 469, 471, “Luella Miller” 143 489–90, 499, 524, 537, 543 “Wind in the Rose-bush, The” 48, 144 “Giant Wistaria, The” (Gilman) 144 Freud, Sigmund 5–6 Gibson, William 418–32 Friedan, Betty: T he Feminine Mystique 292, Count Zero 4 1 9 , 426 322 Mona Lisa Overdrive 419, 421, 424, “Friends of the Friends, The” (H. 426 James) 193 Neuromancerr 419, 420, 422–3, 424–8, Frost, Robert 449 “Pauper Witch of Grafton, The” 145 Pattern Recognition 4 1 9 “Witch of Coos, The” 145 Spook Country 419 F r ye, Northrop 5 Zero History 4 1 9 Fuentes, Carlos 520, 533–46 Gilda Stories, The (Gomez) 4 3 9 “Cat of My Mother, The” 539–40, Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 10 542–3, 544 “Giant Wistaria, The” 144 “Chac Mool” 538–9, 541–2, 544 Herland 4 4 9 Vlad 540–1, 543–4 “Yellow Wallpaper, The” 144 Full Dark, No Stars (S. King) 360 Ginger Snaps (fi l m ) 3 2 3 “Fungus Among Us, A” (audio drama, Ginsberg, Lesley 1 1 Nubie) 471–2 Girl Sleuth: A Feminist Guide, The Fuss, Diana 10 (Mason) 2 0 6 568 Index

Girl Next Door, Thee (Ketchum, also fi lm) 321 Hackford, Taylor: The Devil ’ s Advocate Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The ( fi lm, (fi l m ) 46 Swedish and US versions) 546, 550 Haggerty, George Give Me Your Heartt (Oates) 311 “Ann Rice and the Queering of Gladiator, The (Bird) 1 0 1 Culture” 341, 342–3 Glamorama (B. E. Ellis) 452 Queer Gothicc 11 Goddu, Teresa A: Gothic America 11, 227, “Haints”: American Ghosts, Millennial 235n, 250, 378, 451, 497 Passions, and Contemporary Gothic Fiction Godwin, William 111, 119 (Redding) 452 Godzilla 49 Halberstam, Judith 4 2 Goingback, Owl: C rota 228 “Hall Bedroom, The” (Freeman) 144 “Gold-bug, The” (Poe) 513 “Hall of Fantasy, The” (Hawthorne) 160 Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Hall of Fantasy, The (radio series) 466 Strange, The (Green) 205–6 Halloween (fi lm, Carpenter) 321, 463 Golem, The (fi lm, Wegener) 475, 478 Halsey, Harlan Page Gomez, Jewelle: The Gilda Stories 4 3 9 Cad Metti, the Female Detective Gone With the Windd (Mitchell) 181–2 Strategistt 2 0 6 “Good Country People” (O ’ Connor) 283–4 Lady Detective, The 206, 207 “Good Man is Hard to Find, A” Mademoiselle Lucie, the French Female (O ’ Connor) 281, 285 Detective 2 06 “Goophered Grapevine, The” Secret of the Kidnapped Heir, The 2 0 4–5, (Chesnutt) 241–2 207 Gordon, Caroline: None Shall Look Back 1 84 Halttunen, Karen 73, 205 Gordon, R, K. Gordon, and M. Gunther: Hammett, Dashiell: T he Maltese The Split-Level Trap 316 Falcon 4 77 Gothic America (Goddu) 11, 227, 235n, Hand, Elizabeth 250, 378, 451, 497 Generation Loss 145 Gothic Writing, 1750–1820: A Genealogy “Winter ’ s Wife” 145 (Miles) 253–4, 260 Hangsaman (S. Jackson) 291 “Gothic Versus Romantic” (Hume) xvii Happening, The (fi lm, Shyamalan) 50 Gravedigger’ s Daughter, The (Oates) 3 0 9 Harmony-Silk Factory, The (Aw) 5 2 8 “Gray Champion, The” (Hawthorne) 105 Harris, Charlaine Great Expectations (Dickens) 1 0 1 Dead Until Dark 4 4 1–2 Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald) 27 Southern Vampire Mysteries, The 4 99 Green, Anna Katherine Harvest Home (Tryon) 146 Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Haskin, Byron: The Naked Jungle (fi l m ) Strange, The 2 0 5–6 53 “Grotto Specter, The” 205–6 Hatley, Kyle: “The Dead Girl” (audio “Missing: Page Thirteen” 206, 208 drama) 4 7 2 That Affair Next Doorr 205 Hattenhauer, Darryl 292, 293 Greenblatt, Stephen: Renaissance Hauntedd (Oates) 310, 312 Self-Fashioningg 12 Haunted Castle, The (Railo) 1 7 7 Greeson, Jennifer 81, 127 Haunted Screen, The (Eisner) 4 8 1 Gross, Louis: Redefi ning the American Haunting, The (fi lm, Wise) 297 Gothicc 7 Haunting of Hill House, The (S. Jackson) “Grotto Specter, The” (Green) 205–6 48, 291, 295–8, 332 Gypsy, the Girl Ferret (Broughton) 204, 207 Haunting Hour, The (radio series) 4 6 7 Index 569

Haunting the House of Fiction (Carpenter and Hell House (novel and fi lm, Matheson) 216, Kolmar) 1 0 218 “Haunted Mind, The” (Hawthorne) 156 Hemenway, Robert 239 Hautala, Rick 142 Herland (Gilman) 449 Hawkes, John 281 Hermit’ s Cave, The (radio series) 4 66, 468 Hawthorne (H. James) 1 9 1 Hero with a Thousand Faces (Campbell) Hawthorne, Julian 140 362 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 3–4, 10, 140, Hidden Staircase, The (Wirt and 151–63, 179, 226 Stratemeyer) 205, 208 and Hannah Dustan 89 Highway, Tomson: Kiss of the Fur “Artist of the Beautiful, The” 151 Queen 229 “Birth-Mark, The” 49 Hill, Joe 142 Blithedale Romance, The 1 5 4, 156, Hillcoat, John: The Road (fi lm) 447 160–1 Hillman, James 18 Dr. Grimshawe ’ s Secret 140, 269 Hiroshima Mon Amourr (fi lm, Resnais) 333 “Drowne ’ s Wooden Image” 151 History of American Theatre (Dunlap) 97 “Earth ’s Holocaust” 160 Hitchcock, Alfred “Egotism; Or, The Bosom Serpent” Alfred Hitchcock Presents 488, 491–2 156 Birds,The 53, 508 “Ethan Brand” 156 Psycho 45, 318, 463 “Gray Champion, The” 105 Vertigo 463 “Hall of Fantasy, The” 160 Hoban, Russell: Riddley Walkerr 451 “Haunted Mind, The” 156 Hochfi eld, George 152 House of the Seven Gables, The 4, 8, 140, Hogan, Chuck: The Strain (novel and 156 sequels, with Del Toro) 53 infl uence on James 151 Hogan, Linda: Solar Storms 2 31 “Lovell ’ s Fight” 92 Hogle, Jerrold 225, 235n2, 373, 375n4 “Man of Adamant, The” 156 Hole, The (fi l m ) 324 “Maypole of Merrymount, The” 146 “Hole in the Head, A” (Oates) 311 “Minster ’ s Black Veil, The” 49, 140 Holland, Sharon 233 “Monsieur du Miroir” 156 Home, Daniel Dunglas 143 Mosses from an Old Manse 141 homosexuality see sexuality, alternative “New Adam and Eve, The” 37n Hope Leslie (Sedgwick) 92 “Procession of Life, The” 160 “Horror at Red Hook, The” “Rappaccini ’ s Daughter” 4 9 (Lovecraft) 2 7 3 “Roger Malvin ’ s Burial” 90, 92, 153 Horsfi eld, Margaret 294, 298 Scarlet Letter, The 35, 49, 92, 101, 140, House Behind the Cedars, The 143, 153–4, 191, 514 (Chesnutt) 238 Twice-Told Tales, 140 House Next Door, The (Siddons) 320, 325 “Virtuoso ’ s Collection, A” 141 House of the Seven Gables, The “Wakefi eld” 128, 132, 156 (Hawthorne) 4, 8, 140, 156 “Young Goodman Brown” 46–7, 49, Household of Bouverie, T he (Warfi eld) 179 92, 140, 152, 153 “How to Write a Blackwood Article” H a ynes, Todd: Safe (fi l m ) 323 (Poe) 178 Hazel, Fred Howard, Robert E. 269 Lotta, the Young Lady Detective 2 0 7 Howells, William Dean xviii Lotta Lascelle 207 Hughes, William xviii 570 Index

Hume, Robert: “Gothic Versus Iron Heel, The (London) 449 Romantic” x vii “Irrelevant Death, An” (Abé) 522 “Hunger” (Chang) 257 Irving, Theodore 87 Hunger Games, The (fi l m ) 4 0 6 Irving, Washington Hungry Ghosts (Oates) 3 1 0 “Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The” 4 7 Hunted Past Reason (Matheson) 2 1 9 The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon 84 Huxley, Aldous: B rave New Worldd 452 Tales of a Travellerr 1 00 Irwin, John T. American Hieroglyphics 8 I, Robot (fi lm, Proyas) 50 ITT (King) 142, 355, 359 I, Robott (stories, Asimov) 50 “It Might Have Been Better, It Might Have I Am Legendd (fi lm, Lawrence) 50 Been Worse” (Dunlap) 100 I Am Legendd (novel, Matheson) 50, 214, 217, 218, 319, 322 Jack ’ s Wife (Romero) 322, 323 I Love a Mystery (radio series, J ackson, Shirley 144, 290–302 Morse) 464–5 “Beautiful Stranger, The” 322 Icebox Radio Theater 472 “Biography of a Story” 146 Ickstadt, Heinz 253 Bird ’ s Nest, The 2 91 “Imagination of Disaster, The” Come Along With Me 301 (Sontag) 454 Hangsaman 291 “Imp of the Perverse, The” (Poe) 47, 156 Haunting of Hill House, The 4 8 , 291, In Search of Hannah Crafts (ed. Gates and 295–8, 332 Robbins) 81–2 Life Among the Savages 2 91 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl “Lottery, The” 144, 146, 291 (Jacobs) 81 Raising Demons 291, 294 Independence Day (fi lm, Emmerich) 51 Road Through the Wall, The 293–4, 315, Indian Killerr (Alexie) 228, 230, 232 320 Indians (American) xix-xx, 43–4, 45–6, “Summer People, The” 146 84–95, 110, 120, 140, 153, 225–37, Sundial, The 2 98 324, 367, 374–5, 398–9, 414, 489, We Have Always Lived in the Castle 1 46, 539, 540 295, 298–301 Anasazi artifacts of 3 6 Witchcraft of Salem Village, The 2 92 as “monstrous other” 43–4, 85–6, Jacobs, Harriet: I ncidents in the Life of a Slave 227–8 Girll 8 1 indigenous Gothic of 230–5 “Jailer, The” (Plath) 328 writing back against “settler James, G.P.R. 27 Gothic” 228–30 James, Henry 189–200 see also windigo American Scene, The 191, 194–6, 197 Inner Sanctum Mysteries (radio series) 466, “De Grey: A Romance” 189 467 English Hours 194, 197 International Gothic Association xviii-xix “Friends of the Friends, The” 193 Interview with the Vampire (Rice) 341, “Ghostly Rental, The” 192 344–6 Ghostly Tales of Henry James, The (ed. Leon “Introduction to A Memoir to Mary Ann” Edel) 189 (O ’ Connor) 2 8 6 Hawthorne 191 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Finney) 318, infl uenced by Hawthorne 151 322 “Jolly Corner, The” 191, 196–7 Invitation to Helll (Craven) 324 “Owen Wingrave” 193 Index 571

“Private Life, The” 192–3 Keller, Nora Okja: Comfort Woman 251 “Romance of Certain Old Clothes, Kelly, Lauren see Oates, Joyce Carol The” 189–92, 193 Kelly, Richard: Donnie Darko 321 Sense of the Past, The 197–8 Kenilworth (Scott) 100, 102 “Sir Edmund Orme” 192 “Kerfol” (Wharton) 48 Turn of the Screw, The 5, 192, 193–4, Ketchum, Jack: The Girl Next Doorr 3 2 1 197, 329, 344 Kiernan, Caitlin M.: The Red Tree James, P. D.: C hildren of Men 457 144–5 Jameson, Frederic 419 Kilgour, Maggie 6, 174, 251 Jane Eyre (C. Brontë) 72, 203–4 Kill Billl (fi lm, Tarantino) 89 Jane Talbott (Brown) 113 Killers, The (fi lm, Siodmak) 4 85 Janeway, James: A Token for Children 368 Killers, The (Lippard) 129, 133 Jasmine (Mukherjee) 251 King, Joe Hill (see Hill, Joe) Jaws (fi lm and sequels) 53 King, Stephen 142, 164, 353–65 Jaws (novel, Benchley) 53 and Hawthorne 142, 356–7 Jefferson, Thomas: Notes on the State of and Jewett 145 Virginia 124–5 and Poe 3 56 Jennifer ’ s Body (fi lm) 323 and Lovecraft 3 56 Jersey Devil, The 52 and western movies 359–60 J ewett, Sarah Orne 10, 144 Apt Pupill 321 Johnson, Denis: Fiskadoru 458–9 Carrie, 3 5 3 , 356 Johnson, Greg 305 Celll 50 “ Jolly Corner, The” (H. James) 191, Cujo 5 3 194–7 Danse Macabre 3 5 7 , 494 Jones, Brennon: Chupacabra: The Island of Dark Half, The 57–65, 361 Terrorr (fi lm) 52–3 Dark Tower, The 354–5 Joshi, S. T. 272, 274–5 Dead Zone, The 361 Joy Luck Club, The (Tan) 2 5 2 Dolores Claiborne 1 4 5 , 355, 359 Judah, S. B. H. Fog, The 512 Mountain Torrent, The 1 0 5–6 Full Dark, No Stars 360 Rose of Aragon; or, the Vigil of St. Mark, Gerald’ s Game 355 The 1 06 ITT 142, 355, 359 Julia, and the Illuminated Baron “Man in the Black Suit, The” 142 (Wood) 147 Misery 361, 508 Juno (fi l m ) 406 Mist, The 358 Jurassic Park (fi lm and sequels) 49–50 Needful Things 358 On Writingg 353–4 Kafer, Peter 113 Pet Sematary 2 2 6 , 227, 366–77 Karloff, Boris 467 “Reach, The” 145 Karlson, Phil: Be n (fi lm) 53 Rose Red (TV) 48, 356 Keane, Stephen 454–5 Salem’ s Lot 142, 322, 356, 358–9, Keats, John (20th century critic): The Crack 360 in the Picture Window 316 Shawshank Redemption, The 359–60, Keeline, James D. 207 361, 362 Keene, Carolyn see Wirt, M. A., and Shining, The 4 8 , 227, 356–7, 363, Stratemeyer, E 508 Keesey, Pam: Daughters of Darkness 438–9 Storm of the Century, 358–9, 360 572 Index

King, Tabatha “Last Day, The” (Matheson) 214 Caretakers 1 42 Last House on the Left, The (fi lm, Trap, The 14 2 Craven) 5 49 King Kongg (fi lm and remakes) 53 Last Man, The (Shelley) 448–9 Kingdom of the Spiders (fi lm, Cardos) 53 Last of the Mohicans, The (J. F. Cooper) 43, Kingdom of this World, The (Carpentier) 234 85, 90, 92 Kingston, Maxine Hong: T he Woman Laura (fi lm, Preminger) 4 83 Warrior 252, 261n6 Lawrence, D. H.: Studies in Classic American Kiss of the Fur Queen (Highway) 229 Literature 5 , 226, 450 Klein, Naomi: Th e Shock Doctrine 448 Lawrence, Francis Kolmar, Wendy: Haunting the House of Constantine 4 6 Fiction (with Carpenter) 10 I Am Legendd (fi lm) 50 Kolodny, Annette 9 Lazare, Joe 227 Kristeva, Julia 4 38 Le Fanu, Sheridan: Carmilla 3 44, 438 Powers of Horrorr 11 Leclaire, Serge: A Child is Being Killed: Tales of Love 547 Primary Narcissism and the Death K u brick, Stanley Drive 372–3 Clockwork Orange, A 4 52 Ledwon, Lenora 490 Shining, The (fi lm) 48, 363, 508 Lee, Julia 73 Kuntsler, James 315 Left 4 Dead 1 & 2 (digital games) 507 “Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The” LaBute, Neil: Lakeview Terrace (fi lm) 3 1 9 (Irving) 47 Lacan, Jacques 8–9, 10 Leiber, Fritz: Con jure Wife 2 93 Écrits 8 Leicesterr (Dunlap) 100, 102–3 Lady Detective, The (Halsey) 206, 207 lesbian see sexuality, alternative “Lady Lazarus” (Plath) 329, 334–5 “Lesbos” (Plath) 329 Ladye Annabel; or, The Doom of the Poisoner, Less Than Zero (B. E. Ellis) 6 5 The (Lippard) 129 Let Me In (fi lm) 547, 549, 554, 557 Lakeview Terrace (LaBute) 3 1 9 “Let the Lilies Consider” (radio drama, W. Lancaster, Ashley Craig 396 Cooper) 469 Lancelott (Percy) 179, 185–7 Let the Right One In (fi lm, Alfredson) 547, Landes, Ruth 231 548–9, 554–7 Landscape of Fear: Stephen King ’ s American Let the Right One In (novel, Lindqvist) 322, Gothic (Magistrale) 148 548–9, 551–4 Lang, Fritz Letters from an American Farmer Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (fi lm) 475, (Crèvecoeur) 121 479–80 Levernier, James Arthur 85 M (fi lm) 475, 481 Levin, Harry: The Power of Blackness xvii, Metropolis (fi lm) 475, 480 4–5, 489 Scarlet Street (fi lm) 483–4 Levin, Ira Testament of Dr. Mabuse, The (fi lm) 475, Rosemary ’ s Baby 323 479–80 Stepford Wives, The 322, 323, 325 Woman in the Window (fi l m ) 482–3 Levine, Robert S. 161 Langelaan, George: “The Fly” (story) 49 Levy, Maurice: Lovecraftt 275 Last Broadcast, The ( fi lm, Avalos and Lewis, Herschell Gordon: 2,000 Maniacs Weller) 52 (fi lm) 508 Index 573

Lewis, Matthew G. 11, 72 Lost Boys, The (fi lm) 5 5 1 Monk, The 7 2 , 73, 84, 206–7, 332, “Lost Ghost, The” (Freeman) 4 8 489–90 Lost Souls (Brite) 342, 348–51, 435–7 Wood Daemon, The 103 Lotta, the Young Lady Detective (Hazel) 207 Life Among the Savages (S. Jackson) 291 Lotta Lascelle (Hazel) 207 Life in London (Egan) 128 “Lottery, The” (S. Jackson) 144, 146, 291 “Life of a Poet, The” (Abé) 522 Love and Death in the American Novel “Life You Save May Be Your Own, The” (Fiedler) xvii, 3, 5–7, 13, 56, 85, (O ’ Connor) 281 110, 393, 450, 488 “Ligeia” (Poe) 47, 152, 156 Lovecraftt (Levy) 275 Light in Augustt (Faulkner) 183, 528 Lovecraft, H. P. 17, 52, 141–2, 145, “Lightning-Rod Man, The” (Melville) 141 267–78, 448, 508 Lights Outt (radio series) 466, 468 and Hawthorne 141–2, 268–9 Lindqvist, John Ajvide: Let the Right One In and Stephen King 2 7 6 (novel) 322, 548–9, 551–4 and New England women writers 145 Lindsay, Jeff 4 5 and Oates 276 Lionel Lincoln (J. F. Cooper) 85 and Poe 145, 270 Lippard, George 124–36 At the Mountains of Madness 2 70 Empire City, The 1 2 9 “Call of Cthulhu, The” 271, 511 Killers, The 129, 133 Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The 1 4 3 , Ladye Annabel; or, The Doom of the Poisoner, 269–70, 273, 274 The 129 “Colour Out of Space, The” 271 Nazarene, The 1 2 9 “Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, New York: Its Upper Ten and Lower The” 2 70 Million 129 “Dreams in the Witch House, The” Quaker City; or, the Monks of Monk Hall, 141 The 1 2 9–32 “Dunwich Horror, The” 272 L i ppit, Noriko 521, 523, 530n4 “Festival, The” 268 Little Children (Perotta) 321 “Horror at Red Hook, The” 273 “Little Fugue” (Plath) 328 “Pickman ’s Model” 268 Lloyd-Smith, Allan xvii-xviii, 9, 11, 152, “Rats in the Walls, The” 272 452 “Shadow Over Innsmouth, The” 272, Uncanny American Fiction: Medusa’ s 511 Face x vii-xviii “Shunned House, The” 274 Loch Ness Monster 5 2 Supernatural Horror in Literature 5, 270, Logan (Neal) 85, 92 533 London, Jack “Terrible Old Man, The” 271 Iron Heel, The 449 “Thing on the Doorstep, The” 272 Scarlet Plague, The 449 “Unnamable, The” 269 Longfellow, William Wadsworth “Whisperer in Darkness, The” 146, “Courtship of Miles Standish, The” 268–9 548 “Lovell ’ s Fight” (Hawthorne) 92 “Phantom Ship, The” 145 Lovely Bones, The (fi l m ) 406 “Skeleton in Armor, The” 146–7 Lovely Bones, The (novel, Sebold) 321–2 Longyear, Barry B.: “Enemy Mine” 52 “Low-Flying Aircraft” (Ballard) 4 51 Looking Backward (Bellamy) 449 Lowe, Lisa 259 574 Index

Lowell, Amy Marrow of Tradition, The (Chesnutt) 2 3 8 “Crossroads, The” 145 “Mars Jeems ’ s Nightmare” (Chesnutt) 239 “Dracula of the Hills, A” 145 “Marse Chan” (Page) 180 Lowell, James Russell 159 Marsh, George Perkins 146 Lowthar, George Martin, Robert K.: American Gothic: New “Masque of the Red Death, The” (radio Interventions in a National Narrative adaptation) 4 71 (with Savoy) 6, 87, 95, 163, 176, “Tell-Tale Heart, The” (radio 249, 253, 327, 403, 535, 545 adaptation) 470–1 Marxism 5–6, 8, 10 “Luella Miller” (Freeman) 1 43 Mary Louise (Baum) 2 0 7 Luhrmann, Baz: Romeo + Juliett (fi lm) 547 Mary Louise and Josie O ’ Gorman Lunar Park (Ellis) 58–65, 452 (Sampson) 207 Lustig, T.J. 190 Marya, A Life (Oates) 3 0 8 L ynch, David: Tw in Peaks (TV series) 4 88, Mason, Bobbie Ann: The Girl Sleuth: A 494–6, 507–8 Feminist Guide 2 06 “Masque of the Red Death, The” (Poe) 24, M (fi lm, Lang) 475, 481 159 Macbeth (Shakespeare) 100, 102 “Masque of the Red Death, The” (radio Machen, Arthur 272 adaptation, Lowthar) 4 71 Mackenthun, Gesa 228, 235n4 Mather, Cotton 43, 46, 140, 369 Mademoiselle Lucie, the French Female Detective Magnalia Christi Americana 1 4 0 , 145, (Halsey) 206 269, 270 “Madison at Guignol” (Oates) 311 “Narrative of Hannah Dustan, Magistrale, Tony: Landscape of Fear: Stephen The” 88–9, 92 King ’ s American Gothicc 148 Wonders of the Invisible World, The 4 3 Magnalia Christi Americana (Mather) 140, Matheson, Richard 212–22 145, 269, 270 “Advance Notice” 214 Malchow, H.L. 71, 72, 73 and later writers 212 Malin, Irving: New American Gothicc 6, 177 Bid Time Return 2 1 9–20 Maltese Falcon, The (Hammett) 4 7 7 “Born of Man and Woman” 217 “Mama” (Tem) 439–40 “Death Ship” 220 Mamet, David 164 “Disappearing Act” 217–18 Man in Black, The (radio series) 4 7 1 Duell (fi lm) 216, 218 “Man in the Black Suit, The” (S. Hell House (novel and fi lm) 216, 218, King) 142 319 “Man of Adamant, The” (Hawthorne) 156 Hunted Past Reason 219 Man of Fortitude, The (Dunlap) 101 I Am Legendd 50, 214, 216, 217, 218, 322 “Man of the Crowd, The” (Poe) 47, 128, “Last Day, The” 214 132 “Prey” 218 “Manhattan Romance, A” (Oates) 311 Shrinking Man, The 2 1 4, 218, 322 Mann, Daniel: W illard (fi lm) 53 Stir of Echoes, A 3 2 2 , 324 Manning, Susan 114 “Third from the Sun” 214 Mardi (Melville) 1 5 9 Trilogy of Terror (fi lm and sequel) 216 “Marked Tree, The” (Chesnutt) 181 What Dreams May Come 219–20 Marmion (play, Barker) 96–7, 103–5 “Witch War” 215–16 Marmion (poem, Sir Walter Scott) 103–4 Matrix ( fi lm and sequels) 50 Index 575

Matthiessen, F.O. 4 Memoirs (Vidocq) 128 Maturin, Charles R.: Fatal Revenge; or, The Men in Black ( fi lm and sequels) 51 Family of Montorio 102 Mercury Theater on the Air, The (radio Maxwell, William Bulloch: The Mysterious series) 465–6 Fatherr 101 Meserve, Walter J. 105 May, John 451 Metropolis (fi lm, Lang) 475, 480 “Maypole of Merrymount, The” Meyer, Stephenie (Hawthorne) 1 46 Breaking Dawn 443 McCarthy, Cormac 392–404 Twilightt 442–4 Blood Meridian, Or the Evening Redness in “Middle Toe of the Right Foot, The” the West 32–3, 34–7, 392–3, (Bierce) 4 8, 218 397–400 Midnight Mysteries: Salem Witch Trials Border Trilogy, The 25, 397 (digital game) 514 Child of Godd 396 Miles, Robert: Gothic Writing, 1750–1820: Orchard Keeper, The 3 94–5 A Genealogy 253–4, 260 Outer Dark 3 95–6 Miller, Arthur: The Crucible 47, 141, 514 Road, The 1 8 5 , 392–3, 400–2, 456–7 “Minister ’ s Black Veil, The” Suttree 185 (Hawthorne) 49, 140 McIntyre, Clara Frances: Ann Radcliffe in Misery (S. King) 361, 508 Relation to Her Time 203 Mishra, Vijay 1 7 8 McLaughlin, Michael 157 Miss Madelyn Mack (Weir) 206 McMahan, Jeffrey N.: V ampires “Missing Man, The” (Austin) 141 Anonymous 346–8 “Missing: Page Thirteen” (Green) 206, M ’ Donalds; or, Ashes of Southern Homes, The 208 (Peck) 1 7 9 Mist, The (S. King), 358 Meindl, Dieter 8 Mitchell, Isaac: The Asylum: Or, Alonso and Melancholy of Race, The (Cheng) 251–2 Melissa. An American Tale, Founded on Mellard, James: U sing Lacan, Reading Factt 147 Fiction 8 Mitchell, Margaret: Gone With the Melville, Herman 3–4, 140, 151–63 Windd 181–2 “Bartleby, the Scrivener” 160 Moby-Dick (Melville) 141, 152, 154–5, Benito Cereno 44, 72, 160 157–8 Confi dence-Man: His Masquerade, The 1 60 Moers, Ellen 9 “Lightning-Rod Man, The” 141 Mogen, David 88, 93 Mardi 1 5 9 Mollé Mystery Theatre, The (radio Moby-Dick 1 4 1 , 152, 154–5, 157–8 series) 466 Omoo 159 Mona Lisa Overdrive (Gibson) 419, 421, “Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of 424, 426 Maids, The” 141, 159–60 Monk, The (Lewis) 72, 73, 84, 206–7, 332, Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities 8 , 158 489–90 “Poor Man ’ s Pudding and Rich Man ’ s Monkey Beach (Robinson) 229, 234 Crumbs” 159–60 “Monsieur du Miroir” (Hawthorne) 1 5 6 Redburn 1 5 9 Monster, The (Crane) 41, 48 “Two Temples, The” 160 monsters 41–53, 358–9 Typee 159 Mont-St. Michel and Chartres (Adams) 1 4 7 White Jackett 159 Moody, Richard 99 576 Index

“Moon and the Yew Tree, The” Naked Jungle, The (fi lm, Haskin) 53 (Plath) 328, 331 Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, “Morella” (Poe): 47 The (Poe) 44 , 270 Moretti, Franco 256 Narrative of Frederick Douglass, The Morris, William: News from Nowhere 449 (Douglass) 73, 81 Morrison, Toni 164, 378–91 “Narrative of Hannah Dustan, The” Belovedd 21, 48, 82, 378, 379, 380–1, (Mather) 88–9, 92 389, 421, 453 Narrative of James Williams, The Paradise 378, 379–89 (Williams) 7 4–81 Playing in the Dark 13, 71 Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration Morse, Carleton E.: I Love a Mystery (radio of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, A series) 464–5 (Rowlandson) 4 3, 89 Mosher, Howard Frank 146 Narrative of the Life Mrs. Mary Jemison, A Mosses from an Old Manse (Hawthorne) (Seaver) 91–2 141 Native Americans see Indians (American) Mountain Torrent, The (Judah) 105–6 Nature (Emerson) 152, 155 Mourning Becomes Electra (O ’ Neil) 1 0 1 Nazare, Joe 227 “Mr. Sludge, ‘The Medium’ ” (R. Nazarene, The (Lippard) 129 Browning) 143 NBC University Theaterr 465 “MS. Found in a Bottle” (Poe) 151 Neal, John Mukherjee, Bharati: Jasmine 251 Logan 8 5 , 92 Mumford, Lewis 316 Rachel Dyerr 8 5 Munch, Edvard: “The Scream” 481 Randolph 85 Munsters, The (TV series) 492–3 Needful Things (S. King) 358 Murneau, F.W.: Nosferatu 4 7 5 , 478 Nestingen, Andrew: Crime and Fantasy in Murphy, Bernice M. 296 Scandinavia: Fiction, Film, and Social Suburban Gothic in American Popular Change 552 Culture, The 7 Neuhaus, Jessamyn 293 Murray, Janet 505 Neuromancerr (Gibson) 419, 420, 422–3, Museum of Dr. Moses, The (Oates) 310–11 424–8, 449 My Heart Laid Bare (Oates) 3 0 8 “New Adam and Eve, The” My Life as Emperorr (Tong) 527 (Hawthorne) 37n My Sister, My Love (Oates) 309 New American Gothic (Malin) 6 Mystères de Paris, Les (Sue) 128 New Criticism 3 –4 Mysteries and Miseries of New York, The New England’ s Gothic Literature (Buntline) 131 (Ringel) 148 Mysteries of Udolpho, The (Radcliffe) 85, New York by Gaslightt (Foster) 129 202–3, 208, 235, 329 New York in Slices (Foster) 129 Mysteries of Winterthurn (Oates) 3 0 8 New York: Its Upper Ten and Lower Million Mysterious Father, The (Maxwell) 1 0 1 (Lippard) 129 Mysterious Monk, The. See Ribbemont, or the New York Nell, The Boy-Girl Detective Feudal Baron (Dunlap) (Wheeler) 206, 208 Mysterious Mother, The (Walpole) 9 “Newport Tower, The” (Brainard) 145 “Mysterious Stranger, The” (Twain) 46 News from Nowhere (Morris) 449 Mysterious Traveler, The (radio series) 466 Ng, Andrew 254 Mystery in the Airr (radio series) 457 Ng, Fae Myenne: Bone 252, 255–9 Index 577

Nichols, Jeff: Take Shelterr 322, 325 First Love 309 Nick of the Woods (Bird) 43 Garden of Earthly Delights, A 308 Nietzsche, Friedrich 303 Give Me Your Heartt 3 1 1 Night Gallery (TV series) 4 8 8 Gravedigger ’ s Daughter, The 3 0 9 Night of the Living Deadd (fi lm, Romero) 50 Hauntedd 310, 312 Nightmare (radio drama) 467 “Hole in the Head, A” 311 Nightmare on Elm Street, A 320 Hungry Ghosts 310 Night-Side (Oates) 3 1 0 “Madison at Guignol” 311 Nightwingg (Smith, Martin Cruz) 228 “Manhattan Romance, A” 311 “No Haid Pawn” (Page) 180–1 Marya, A Life 308 Noble, Marianne 10 Museum of Dr. Moses, The 310–11 None Shall Look Back (Gordon) 184 My Heart Laid Bare 308 No-No Boy (Okada) 2 5 7 My Sister, My Love 309 Northanger Abbey (Austen) 2 0 3 Mysteries of Winterthurn 308 Norton, Caroline: Bobs, a Girl Night-Side 310 Detective 2 0 5 “Our Lady of the Easy Death of Nosferatu (fi lm, Murneau) 475, 478 Alferce” 310 Notes on the State of Virginia “Poe-Posthumous; or, The (Jefferson) 124–5 Light-House” 311 Nowell, Richard 550 Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Nubie, Steve: “A Fungus Among Us” (audio Portuguese, The 3 0 9 drama) 471–2 “Posthumous” 3 10 Rise of Life on Earth, The 307 Oates, Joyce Carol 164, 303–14 “Sepulchre, The” 310 American Appetites 308 –9 “Smother” 3 11 Barrens, The (as Rosamond Smith) 312 Son of the Morningg 308 Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Starr Bright Will Be with You Soon (as Heartt 308–9 Rosamond Smith) 3 1 2 Bellefl eurr 308 “Tetanus” 3 11 Black Waterr 309 “Thanksgiving” 310 Blood Mask (as Lauren Kelley) 312 “Valentine, July Heatwave” 310 Bloodsmoor Romance, A 308 Wheel of Love and Other Stories, The “Brain of Dr. Vicente, The” 310 309 Childwoldd 308 “Where Are You Going, Where Have Collector of Hearts, The 310 You Been?” 3 0 9 Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares, Where I ’ ve Been, and Where I’ m The 311 Goingg 305 “Demon, The” 310 Widow ’ s Story, A 312 Demon and Other Tales 310 Wild Nights! Stories about the Last Days of “EDickinsonRepliLuxe” 311 Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and “Elvis is Dead, Why Are You Hemingway 311 Alive?” 3 10 Will You Always Love Me and Other Expensive People 3 21 Stories 310 Fair Maiden, A 30 7 With Shuddering Falll 307–8 Faithless 311 (Woman) Writer 303, 304, 305 Female of the Species, The 311 Zombie 306–7 578 Index

Oboler, Arch 4 68 Pal, George: War of the Worlds, The “Chicken Heart” (radio drama) 468 (fi lm) 51 “Dark, The” (radio drama) 4 68 “Palatine, The” (Whittier) 145 “Revolt of the Worms” (radio Palumbo-Liu, David 252 drama) 4 68–9 Panther, Abraham: A Surprising Account of the “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An” Discovery of a Lady Who Was Taken by (Bierce) 217 the Indians in the Year 1777, and After O ’ Connor, Flannery 164, 279–89 Making her Escape, She Retired to a “Good Country People” 283–4 Lonely Cave, Where She Lived Nine “Goo d Man is Hard to Find, A” 281, 285 Years 89–90, 92 “Introduction to A Memoir to Mary Paradise (Morrison) 378, 379–89 Ann” 286 “Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of “Life You Save May Be Your Own, Maids, The” (Melville) 141, 159–60 The” 281 Paranormal Activity (fi lm and sequels) 320 “Revelation” 280 Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth 71–2 “River, The” 281 Parents ( fi lm) 321 Violent Bear It Away, The 282 Parker, Alan: Angel Heartt 46 Wise Bloodd 280, 281 Parrish, Timothy 4 59 Octavia Bragaldi (Connor) 9 9 Parsons, Eliza: T he Castle of Wolfenbach 202 Okada, John: No-No Boy 257 The Passage (Cronin) 363 Old English Baron (Reeve) 102, 422 Passion for Consumption, A (Sonser) 7 Old Floating Cloudd (Xue) 5 2 5 Pattern Recognition (Gibson) 4 19 Oldtown Fireside Stories (Stowe) 143 “Pauper Witch of Grafton, The” Omoo (Melville) 159 (Frost) 145 On Writing (S. King) 353–4 Peck, W.H.: The M ’ Donalds; or, Ashes of O ’ Neill, Eugene 98 Southern Homes 179 Desire Under the Elms 1 45 Pelopidas (Bird) 101 Mourning Becomes Electra 101 People Under the Stairs, The (Craven) 319, Orchard Keeper, The (McCarthy) 394–5 321 Ormond; or the Secret Witness (Brown) 110, Percy, Walker: Lancelott 179, 185–7 112, 115–17 Perotta, Tom: Little Children 321 “Our Lady of the Easy Death of Alferce” Pet Sematary (S. King) 226, 227, 366–77 (Oates) 310 Petersen, Wolfgang Our Vampires, Ourselves (Auerbach) 550–1 Enemy Mine ( fi lm) 52 Outbreak (fi lm, Petersen) 53 Outbreak ( fi lm) 53 Outer Dark (McCarthy) 395–6 Phantom Lady (fi lm, Siodmak) 4 84 “Oval Portrait, The” (Poe) 178 “Phantom Ship, The” (Longfellow) 145 “Owen Wingrave” (H. James) 193 “Pickman ’ s Model” (Lovecraft) 268 Owens, Louis 228, 232 Picture of Dorian Gray, The (Wilde) 477 Sharpest Sightt 228 Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities (Melville) 8, 158 Piette, Adam 336 Page, Thomas Nelson Plath, Sylvia 328–39 “Marse Chan” 180 “Childless Women” 338 “No Haid Pawn” 180–1 “Colossus, The” 329, 335–6 Paglia, Camille 145 “Daddy” 328, 329, 334–5, 336 Paine, Thomas: Th e Age of Reason 113 “Death & Co.” 329 Index 579

“Disquieting Muses, The” 330, 338 “Tell-Tale Heart, The” 156, 159 “Electra on Azalea Path” 33 1 “To One in Paradise” 106 “Event” 337 “Ulalume” 152 “Fever 103°” 329 “William Wilson” 47, 156–7, 165–75, “Getting There” 334 477 “Jailer, The” 328 “Poe-Posthumous; or, The Light-House” “Lady Lazarus” 329, 334–5 (Oates) 311 “Lesbos” 329 Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the “Little Fugue” 328 Portuguese, The (Oates) 3 0 9 “Moon and the Yew Tree, The” 328, 331 Polanski, Roman: Rosemary ’ s Baby 45 “Snowman on the Moor, The” 328 Politian (Poe) 98 “Stings” 3 2 9 Poltergeist (fi lm and sequels) 227, 320, “Thalidomide” 336 324, 325 “Thin People, The” 333–4, 337 “Pomegranate Seed, The” (Wharton) 4 8 “Three Women” 329, 337–8 “Poor Man ’ s Pudding and Rich Man ’ s “Two Views of Withens” 331 Crumbs” (Melville) 159–60 “Waking in Winter” 329 Porte, Joel 375n5 “Winter Trees” 337 posthumanism (defi ned) 4 17n1 “Wuthering Heights” 328, 330, 331 “Posthumous” (Oates) 310 Playing in the Dark (Morrison) 13, 71 Power of Blackness, The (Levin) 4 –5 Poe, Edgar Allan 3–5, 23–4, 151–63, 226 Powers of Horrorr (Kristeva) 1 1 a n d Asian writers 519–32 Prairie, The (J. F. Cooper) 85, 92 and Lovecraft 145, 270 Preminger, Otto: L aura (fi lm) 483 “Assignation, The “ 106 “Prey” (Matheson) 218 “Berenice” 4 7 “Private Life, The” (H. James) 192–3 “Black Cat, The” 4 7, 153, 156 Pro Cluentio (Cicero) 1 1 5 “Cask of Amontillado, The” 21, 24, “Procession of Life, The” (Hawthorne) 160 156, 159, 287n5 “Prophecy of Samuel Sewall, The” “Conqueror Worm, The” 106 (Whittier) 145 “Eleonora” 4 7 Prospero’ s America: John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, Eureka 151 and the Creation of New England Culture, “Fall of the House of Usher, The” 24, 1606–1676 (Woodward) 142 47, 177, 178–9, 184, 152–3 Proyas, Alex: I, Robott (fi lm) 50 “Gold-bug, The” 513 Psycho (Hitchcock) 4 5, 318, 463 “How to Write a Blackwood Punter, David 30, 174, 241, 332, 357, Article” 178 434, 536 “Imp of the Perverse, The” 4 7, 156 Putnam’ s Monthly 7 2 “Ligeia” 4 7, 152, 156 “Man of the Crowd, The” 4 7, 128, 132 Quaker City; Or, the Monks of Monk Halll, Th e “Masque of the Red Death, The” 24, 159 (Lippard) 129–32 “Morella” 4 7 queer see sexuality, alternative “MS. Found in a Bottle” 151 Queer Gothicc (Haggerty) 11 Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Quiet, Please (radio series) 4 67, 469 Nantucket, The 44, 152, 270 Quine, Richard: Bell, Book and Candle “Oval Portrait, The” 178 (fi lm) 47 Politian 98 Quinn, Arthur Hobson 98–9, 104, 105 580 Index

Rabuzzi, Kathryn Allen 296, 298 Ribbemont, or the Feudal Baron (Dunlap) 98, Rachel Dyerr (Neal) 85 100, 101 Radcliffe, Ann 10 Rice, Anne Mysteries of Udolpho, The 85, 202–3, Interview with the Vampire 3 41, 344–6 208, 225, 329 Vampire Chronicles, The 44–5, 341–2, Romance of the Forest, The 100, 103 344–6 R a dway, Janice: Reading the Romance 10 Vampire Lestat, The 3 42 Railo, Eino: Th e Haunted Castle 177 Rice (Tong) 527 “Raise the Red Lantern” (Tong) 526–7 Richardson, Maurice 340 Raising Demons (S. Jackson) 291, 294 Rickstad, Eric: Reap 3 63 Rampo, Edogawa 521 Riddley Walkerr (Hoban) 451 Randolph (Neal) 85 Right At Your Doorr (fi lm) 322 Rapatzikou, Tatiani, G. 4 20 Ringe, Donald: American Gothicc 12 “Rappaccini ’ s Daughter” (Hawthorne) 4 9 Ringel, Faye: New England ’ s Gothic “Rats in the Walls, The” (Lovecraft) 272 Literature 1 48 Raven and Other Poems, The (Poe) 99 Ripley, George 159 “Reach, The” (S. King) 145 Rise of Life on Earth, The (Oates) 307 Reading Asian American Literature “River, The” (O ’ Connor) 282 (Wong) 2 5 7 Road, The (fi lm, Hillcoat) 44 7 Reading the Romance (Radway) 10 Road, The (novel, McCarthy) 185, 392–3, “Realm of the Unreal, The” (Bierce) 400–2, 456–7 217 Road Through the Wall, The (S. Reap (Rickstad) 363 Jackson) 293–4, 320 Red Rose (TV, S. King) 4 8 Robbins, Hollis: In Search of Hannah Crafts Red Sorghum (Yan) 526 (with Gates) 81–2 Red Tree, The (Kiernan) 144–5 Robert, Etienne-Gaspard 4 90 Redburn (Melville) 159 Robinson, Douglas 4 50 Redding, Arthur: “ Haints”: American Ghosts, Robinson, Eden Millennial Passions, and Contemporary “Dogs in Winter” 229 Gothic Fiction 4 52 Monkey Beach 229, 234 Redefi ning the American Gothicc (Gross) 7 Roddick, Nick 4 55 Reeve, Clara: The Old English Baron 102, “Roger Malvin ’ s Burial” (Hawthorne) 90, 422 92, 153 Reinhardt, Max 4 81–2 “Romance of Certain Old Clothes, The” (H. Renaissance Self-Fashioningg (Greenblatt) James) 189–92, 193 12 Romance of the Forest, The (Radcliffe) 100, Republic of Wine, The (Yan) 526 103 Resident Evil (fi lm and sequels) 53 Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) 547, 553, Resnais, Alain: H iroshima Mon Amour 555, 556 (fi lm) 333 Romeo + Juliett (fi lm, Luhrmann) 547 Restuccia, Frances, L. 292 Romero, George 508 “Revelation” (O ’ Connor) 280 Dawn of the Deadd 50, 322 “Revolt of the Worms” (radio drama, Jack ’ s Wife 322, 323 Oboler) 4 68–9 Night of the Living Deadd 50 Reynolds, David S.: Beneat h the American Rose of Aragon; or, the Vigil of St. Mark, The Renaissance 1 43, 148, 160–1 (Judah) 106 Index 581

Rose Red (TV) 48, 356 Scott, Ridley Rosemary ’ s Baby (fi lm, Polanski) 4 6 Alien (fi lm) 51 Rosemary ’ s Baby (novel, I. Levin) 323 Blade Runner (fi lm) 50 Rosenthal, Bernard: Salem Story: Reading the Scott, Sir Walter Witch Trials of 1692 1 41 Kenilworth 100, 102 Rosny, J. H. 44 8 Marmion 103–4 Roughing Itt (Twain) 29 Scream (fi lm) 321 Rovira, James 56, 65 “Scream, The” (painting, Munch) 4 81 Rowe, John Carlos: Through the Seaman, Augusta Huiell Custom-House 8 Boarded-up House, The 205 Rowlandson, Mary: Narrative of the Captivity Sapphire Signet, The 205 and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Seaver, James Everett: Narrative of the Life A 43, 89 Mrs. Mary Jemison, A 91–2 Rugg, Peter (New England literature and Sebold, Alice: The Lovely Bones 321–2 folklore) 141 Second Sex, The (de Beauvoir) 9 Secret History, The (Tartt) 165–75 Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV) 4 7 Secret of the Kidnapped Heir, The Safe (fi lm, Haynes) 323 (Halsey) 204–5, 207 Salem Story: Reading the Witch Trials of 1692 Secret of the Lost Fortune, The (Baum) 205 (Rosenthal) 141 Secret of the Old Clock (Wirt and Salem witch trials. See witchcraft Stratemeyer) 2 0 8 Salem ’ s Lot (S. King) 142, 322, 356, Secret Rendezvous (Abé) 522 358–9, 360 Secret World, The ( digital game) 507 Sampson, Emma Speed: Mary Louise and Sedgwick, Catherine Maria: Hope Leslie Josie O ’ Gorman 20 7 92 Sapphire Signet, The (Seaman) 2 0 5 Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky 10 Sasquatch see Bigfoot Between Men 11 Saussure, Ferdinand de 7–8 Coherence of Gothic Conventions, The 7, S avoy, Eric 92 American Gothic: New Interventions in a Sense of the Past, The (H. James) 197–8 National Narrative (with Martin) 6, “Sepulchre, The” (Oates) 310 87, 95, 163, 176, 249, 253, 327, 403, Serial Mom (fi lm, Waters) 321, 324 535, 545 Serling, Rod 4 69, 471 “Face of the Tenant, The” 87, 227, 228, Seven Gothic Tales (Dinesen) 549 249–50, 259–60 sexuality, alternative 11, 13, 116, 144, “Rise of American Gothic, The” 227, 170, 340–62, 376, 435–9, 478, 492, 508, 536 500, 547–58 Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American “Shadow Over Innsmouth, The” Women Writers (Weinstock) 144 (Lovecraft) 272, 511 Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne) 35, 49, 92, Shadow, The (radio series) 4 65 101, 140, 143, 153–4, 191, 514 Shakespeare, William Scarlet Plague, The (London) 44 9 Macbeth 100, 102 Scarlet Street (fi lm, Lang) 483–4 Romeo and Juliett 547, 553, 555, 556 Schedler, Christopher 230 Sharpest Sightt (Owens) 2 2 8 Scheunemann, Dietrich: E xpressionist Films: Shawshank Redemption, The (S. King) New Perspectives 481 359–60, 361, 362 582 Index

Shelley, Mary “Skylight” (Xue) 525 Frankenstein 49, 56, 64, 65, 72, 424, Slater, Peter 368–9, 370 425–6 slavery xvii, xx, xxi, 4, 7, 13, 21–2, 28, Last Man, The 448–9 35, 43–4, 71–83, 85, 71–83, 85, 87, “Sheriff ’ s Children, The” 111, 113, 118, 141, 142, 160, 173, (Chesnutt) 243–6 180, 181, 183, 184, 213, 227, 235n3, Shining, The (fi lm, Kubrick) 4 8, 363, 508 238–48, 250, 261n2, 378–91, 393, Shining, The (novel, S. King) 4 8, 227, 398–401, 403, 421, 429n5, 451, 465, 356–7, 363, 508 479, 489, 497 Shock Doctrine, The (Klein) 44 8 Sleepy Hollow (fi lm, Burton): 4 7, 550 Showalter, Elaine 9, 10 Slenderr (digital game) 507 Shrinking Man, The (Matheson) 214, 218, Smethurst, James 82 322 Smith, John, Captain 4 3, 87 Shriver, Lionel: We Need to Talk About Smith, Martin Cruz: Nightwingg 228 Kevin 321–2 Smith, Rosamond (pseud. off Oates, Joyce “Shunned House, The” (Lovecraft) 274 Carol) Shyamalan, M. Night “Smother” (Oates) 311 Happening, The ( fi lm) 50 Snakes on a Plane (fi lm, Ellis) 53 Signs (fi lm) 51 “Snowman on the Moor, The” (Plath) 328 S i ddons, Anne Rivers: T he House Next Society for Psychical Research 199 Doorr 320, 325 Solar Storms (Hogan) 231 Signs ( fi lm, Shyamalan) 51 “Something Wicked This Way Comes” Silent Hill 2 (digital game) 507 (Bradbury) 4 6 Silent Springg (Carson) 3 2 5 Son of Dracula (fi lm, Siodmak) 4 84 Silko, Leslie Marmon Son of the Morningg (Oates) 308 Almanac of the Deadd 453 Sonser, Anna: A Passion for Consumption 7 Ceremony 232, 233, 453 Sontag, Susan: “The Imagination of Gardens in the Dunes 453 Disaster” 454 Silverado (fi lm) 17 “Sorry, Wrong Number” (radio drama, Silverman, Kaja 254 Fletcher) 468 Simpson, Philip L. 4 5 Sound and the Fury, The (Faulkner) 527, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” 528 (sermon, Edwards) 4 6, 368 Southern Gothic 13, 44, 71–83, 101, 141, Siodmak, Robert 144, 146, 177–88, 213, 238–9, Criss Cross (fi lm) 485 241–6, 275, 279–89, 393–7, 421, Dark Mirror, The (fi lm) 485 424–37, 441–2, 475, 476, 496–7, Killers, The (fi lm) 485 499–500 se e also s lavery Phantom Lady (fi lm) 484 Southern Vampire Mysteries (Harris) 4 99 Son of Dracula (fi lm) 4 84 Soveraignty and Goodness of God, The “Sir Edmund Orme” (H. James) 192 (Rowlandson) see Narrative of the Sir Rohan ’ s Ghost (Spofford) 143 Capitivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Six Feet Under (TV series, Ball) 488, Rowlandson, A (Rowlandson) 498–9 Spielberg, Stephen: T he War of the Worlds “Skeleton in Armor, The” (fi lm) 51 (Longfellow) 146–7 spiritualism 143 Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, The Split-Level Trap, The (Gordon, Gordon, and (Irving) 85 Gunther) 316 Index 583

Spofford, Harriet Prescott Sundial, The ( Jackson) 298 “Circumstance” 90, 91 Sunset Boulevard (fi lm, Wilder) 485–7 Sir Rohan ’ s Ghost 1 4 3 Supernatural Horror in Literature Spook Country (Gibson) 4 19 (Lovecraft) 5, 270, 533 St. Armand, Barton 272, 273 Supernaturalism of New England, The Stannard, David 369 (Whittier) 145 Star Trek (TV and fi lms) 51, 216 Superstition (Barker) 104 Star Wars ( fi lm and sequels) 51 Surprising Account of the Discovery of a Lady Starr Bright Will Be with You Soon (Oates, as Who Was Taken by the Indians in the Rosamond Smith) 312 Year 1777, and After Making her Escape, Stay Tuned for Terrorr (radio series) 467 She Retired to a Lonely Cave, Where She Stepfather, The (fi lm) 321 Lived Nine Years, A (Panther) 89–90 Stepford Wives, The (novel, I. Levin, and Suspense (radio series) 4 66, 467 fi lm) 322, 323, 325 Suttree (McCarthy) 185 Sterling, Bruce 4 19 Swamp Foetus/Wormwoodd (Brite) 435–6 Stevenson, Robert Louis “Bottle Imp, The” 20 Take Shelter (fi lm, Nichols) 322, 325–6 Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Tales of a Travellerr (Irving) 100 Hyde 449, 477 Tales of Love (Kristeva) 547 “Stick, The” (Abé) 522 Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (Bierce) 216 “Stings” (Plath) 329 Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (Poe) Stir of Echoes, A (Matheson) 322, 324 Tan, Amy: The Joy Luck Club 252 Stoker, Bram: Dracula 1 43, 305, 344 “Tanglefoot” (radio drama, W. Storm of the Century (S. King) 358–9, 360 Cooper) 469 Stowe, Harriet Beecher: O ldtown Fireside Tanizaki, Junichiro ¯ Stories 1 43 “Captain Shigomoto ’ s Mother” 523 Strain, The (novel and sequels, del Toro and Diary of a Mad Old Man 523 Hogan) 53 Key, The 523 Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The and Poe 523–4 (Stevenson) 44 9, 477 “Tatooer, The” 523 “Strange Kind of Brain Damage, A” Tarantino, Quentin: Kill Billl 8 9 (Xue) 5 2 5 Targets (fi lm, Bogdanovich) 321 Stratemeyer, Edward (with Wirt, as Carolyn Tartt, Donna: The Secret History 1 65–75 Keene) Tate, Allen: The Fathers 1 8 4 Bungalow Mystery, The 208 Taylor, Edward 4 5–6 Hidden Staircase, The 205, 208 T eague, Louis: Cujo ( fi lm) 53 Secret of the Old Clock, The 208 Teeth (fi lm) 323, 325 Student of Prague, The (fi lm, Wegener) 4 75, television 4 5, 47, 56, 172, 212, 216, 478, 481 315, 323, 362, 464 , 469,471–2, Studies in Classic American Literature 488–502, 503, 504, 506, 507, (Lawrence) 5, 226, 450 509–10 Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture, “Tell-Tale Heart, The” (Poe) 156, 159 The (Murphy) 7 “Tell-Tale Heart, The” (radio Suburban Myth, The (Donaldson) 317 adaptation) 4 67 Sue, Eugene: Les Mystères de Paris 128 Tem, Melanie Sugars, Cynthia 229 “Mama” 4 39–40 “Summer People, The” (S. Jackson) 146 “Wilding” 439, 445 584 Index

“Ten Years, The” (radio drama, Transcontinental Terror: An Express Train to Dinelli) 4 67–8 Audio Horrorr (audio series) 473 Tennyson, Alfred Lord: “Enoch Transpositions (Braidotti) 412–13 Arden” 101 Trap, The (T. King) 142 Terminator (fi lm and sequels) 50 Travels in New England and New York “Terrible Old Man, The” (Lovecraft) 271 (Dwight) 88 Testament of Dr. Mabuse, The (fi lm, Trilogy of Terrorr (fi lm and sequel, Lang) 4 75, 479–80 Matheson) 216 “ Tetanus” (Oates) 311 True Blood (TV series, Ball) 488, 499–500 “Thalidomide” (Plath) 336 Tryon, Thomas: Harvest Home 1 46 “Thanksgiving” (Oates) 310 Turn of the Screw, The (H. James) 5, 192–4, That Affair Next Doorr (Green) 205 197, 329, 344 Them! (fi lm) 49, 414, 454 Turnbull, John D.: T he Wood Daemon 103 “Thin People, The” (Plath) 333–4, 337 Turner, Nat 44 Thing From Another World, The (movie and Twain, Mark sequels) 270 “Mysterious Stranger, The” 4 6 “Thing on the Doorstep, The” Roughing Itt 29 (Lovecraft) 272 Twenge, Jean 174 “Thing on the Fourble Board” (radio drama, Twice-Told Tales (Hawthorne) 140 W. Cooper) 4 69 Twilightt (Meyer) 442–4 “Thing on the Ice, The” (audio drama, Twilight Zone Radio Dramas, The 216, Adams) 4 72 471–2 “Third from the Sun” (Matheson) 214 Twin Peaks (TV series, Lynch) 4 88, 494–6, T hompson, G. R. 5 507–8 T hompson, George: City Crimes 133 twins see doubles Thoreau, Henry David “Two Temples, The” (Melville) 160 and Hannah Dustan 89 2,000 Maniacs ( fi lm, H. G. Lewis) 508 Walden 153 “Two Views of Withens” (Plath) 331 T hornton, Betsy: G host Towns 3 4 Typee (Melville) 159 Three Day Roadd (Boyden) 228, 231 “Three Women” (Plath) 329, 337–8 “Ulalume” 152 Through the Custom-House (Rowe) 8 Ulmer, Edgar: Detour (fi lm) 485 Tillett, Rebecca 233 uncanny, the 10–11, 12, 20, 30, 47, 56, Time Machine, The (Wells) 18–19 91, 188, 214, 219, 234, 280, 330, “To One in Paradise” (Poe) 106 368, 420, 422, 427, 428, 438, 466, To dorov, Tzvetan 177–8 470, 478, 482, 490, 491, 493, 540, Token for Children, A (Janeway) 368 541 Tong, Su Uncanny American Fiction: Medusa’ s Face Boat to Redemption, The 5 2 6–7 (Lloyd-Smith) xvii-xviii and Faulkner 526–7 “Unnamable, The” (Lovecraft) 269 My Life as Emperorr 527 Urban Gothic of the Second World War “Raise the Red Lantern” 526, 527 (Wasson) 214 Rice 527 Using Lacan, Reading Fiction (Mellard) 8 Torok, Maria 8 Tortesa the Usurerr (Willis) 98 “Valentine, July Heatwave” (Oates) 310 Tracks (Erdrich) 4 8, 232, 233 “Valley of Fear, The” (Doyle) 17 Index 585

“Vampire, The” (Califi a) 4 38–9 “War of the Worlds, The” (radio Vampire Chronicles, The (Rice) 44 –5, adaptation) 51, 465–6 341–2, 344–6 Wardrop, Daneen: Emily Dickinson ’ s Vampire Lestat, The (Rice) 342 Gothic 145 vampires 44 –6, 47, 50, 53, 140, 142–3, Warfi eld, Catherine Ann: The Household of 144–5, 148, 178, 214, 217, 270, 274, Bouverie 179 305, 322, 328, 334, 336–8, 340–52, Warner, Marina 4 89 356, 358–9, 360, 363, 424, 433–6, Wasson, Sara: Urban Gothic of the Second 465, 468, 471, 478–9, 493–4, 497, World Warr 2 1 4 499–500, 504, 537 Waters, John: Serial Mom (fi lm) 321, 324 Vampires Anonymous (McMahan) 346–8 Waugh, Patricia 6 5–6 “Vampire ’ s Desire, The” (radio drama) Wayland, Kc and Shane Salk: We ’ re Alive: A 468 Story of Survival (podcast series) 472 Vathek (Beckford) 72, 490 We Have Always Lived in the Castle (S. Veeder, William 6 Jackson) 146, 295, 298–301 Velie, Alan 228 We Need to Talk About Kevin Vertigo (fi lm, Hitchcock) 4 63 (Shriver) 321–2 Vidocq, Eugène Francois: Memoirs 128 Wegener, Paul Violent Bear It Away, The (O ’ Connor) 2 8 2 Golem, The (fi lm) 475, 478 Virgin Spring, The (fi lm, Bergman) 546 Student of Prague, The (fi lm) 475, 478, Virgin Suicides, The (Eugenides) 320–1 481 “Virtuoso ’ s Collection, A” Weine, Robert: The Cabinet of Dr. (Hawthorne) 141 Caligari 475, 478–9, 481, 483 Vizenor, Gerald: Darkness of Saint Louis Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew 51, 110, 111, Bearheart 228, 230, 231, 453 115 Vlad (Fuentes) 540–1, 543–4 Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by Vonnegut, Kurt: Cat ’ s Cradle 4 51 American Women Writers 1 44 Weir, Hugh C.: Miss Madelyn Mack 206 Wagar, Warren W. 4 51 Weird Circle, The (radio series) 4 67 “Wakefi eld” (Hawthorne) 128, 132, 156 Weird Tales 268 , 273, 274, 275 “Waking in Winter” (Plath) 329 Weld, Theodore: American Slavery as It Walcott, Derek: Another Life 22–3 Is 7 9–81 Wald, Priscilla 53 Weller, Lance: Last Broadcast, The (fi lm, Walden (Thoreau) 153 with Avalos) 52 Walking Dead, The (TV series) 4 2 Wells, H. G.: The War of the Worlds Walpole, Horace 11 (novel) 51, 448 Castle of Otranto, The 4, 8, 9, 11, 177, Wells, Orson 4 65–6 202, 225, 268, 422, 494 Time Machine, The 18–19 Mysterious Mother, The 9 W e lty, Eudora W a lter, Anna Lee: Ghost Singerr 228, 233 “Asphodel” 185 Wandrei, Donald 4 74 wendigo see windigo War of the Worlds, The ( fi lm, Pal) 51 We ’ re Alive: A Story of Survivall (podcast War of the Worlds, The (fi lm, series, Wayland and Salk) 472 Spielberg) 51 Wept of Wish-ton-Wish, The (J. F. War of the Worlds, The (novel, H. G. Cooper) 105 Wells) 51, 448 werewolf 299, 434, 438–40, 442–5 586 Index

Wharton, Edith 10 Will You Always Love Me and Other Stories “Afterwards” 48 (Oates) 3 1 0 Ethan Frome 1 46 Willard (fi lm, Mann) 53 “Kerfol” 4 8 William Dunlap (Canary) 101 “Pomegranate Seed, The” 4 8 “William Wilson” (Poe) 4 7, 156–7, What Dreams May Come 165–75, 477 (Matheson) 219–20 Williams, Ann: Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Whedon, Joss: Buffy the Vampire Slayerr (TV Gothic 4 0 9 series) 4 7, 323, 440, 497–8, 504 Williams, James: T he Narrative of James Wheel of Love and Other Stories, The Williams 7 4–81 (Oates) 309 Willis, N. P.: Tortesa the Usurerr 98 Wheeler, Edward L.: New York Nell, The Wilson, Edmund 5 Boy-Girl Detective 206, 208 “Wind in the Rosebush, The” “Whence Came You?” (radio drama, W. (Freeman) 4 8, 144 Cooper) 4 69 windigo 230–35 see also Native Americans Where I ’ ve Been, and Where I ’ m Going Winter, Kari 71 (Oates) 305 “Winter Trees” (Plath) 337 Whisper in the Dark (Bruchac) 229 “Winter ’ s Wife” (Hand) 145 “Whisperer in Darkness, The” Winthrop, John 4 3, 124 (Lovecraft) 146, 268–9 Winthrop, John, Jr. 142 Whistler, The (radio series) 4 66 Wirt, Mildred A. (with Stratemeyer, as White Jackett (Melville) 159 Carolyn Keene) Whittier, John Greenleaf 74–5, 78 Bungalow Mystery, The 208 “Dead Ship of Harpswell, The” 145 Hidden Staircase, The 205, 208 and Hannah Dustan 88–9 Secret of the Old Clock, The 208 “Palatine, The” 145 Wise, Robert “Prophecy of Samuel Sewall, The” 145 Andromeda Strain, The ( fi lm) 53 Supernaturalism of New England, The 1 45 The Hauntingg (fi lm) 297 Widow ’ s Story, A (Oates) 312 Wise Bloodd (O ’ Connor) 280, 281 Wieland, Or The Transformation. An American Wisker, Gina 328 Tale (Brown) 20–1, 84, 104, 110, “Witch of Coos, The” (Frost) 145 112, 113–15, 494 “Witch War” (Matheson) 215–16 Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color witchcraft 4 6–7, 140, 141 Line, The (Chesnutt) 238 Witchcraft of Salem Village, The (S. Wiget, Andrew 90–1 Jackson) 292 Wigglesworth, Michael: T he Day of Witch ’ s Tale, The (radio series) 4 66, 467 Doom 368, 450 With Shuddering Falll (Oates) 307–8 Wild Nights! Stories about the Last Days of Wolfe, Cary 4 15n1 Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Wollstonecraft, Mary 114 Hemingway (Oates) 311 Woman in the Window ( fi lm, Lang) Wilde, Oscar: Th e Picture of Dorian 482–3 Gray 477 Woman Warrior, The (Kingston) 252, Wilder, Billy 261n6 Double Indemnity (fi lm) 4 85–6 (Woman) Writer (Oates) 303, 304, 305 Sunset Boulevard (fi lm) 485–7 Wonders of the Invisible World, The “Wilding” (Tem) 4 39, 445 (Mather) 43 Index 587

Wong, Cynthia Sau-ling: Reading Asian and Poe 5 25 American Literature 257 “Skylight” 525 Wood, Sally S.B.K.: Julia, and the “Strange Kind of Brain Damage, Illuminated Baron 1 47 A” 525 Wood Daemon, The (Lewis) 1 0 3 Wood Daemon, The (Turnbull) 103 Yan, Mo Woodward, Walter: Prospero ’ s America: John and Faulkner 526 Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation Red Sorghum 5 2 6 of New England Culture, Republic of Wine, The 5 2 6 1606–1676 1 42 “Yellow Wallpaper, The” (Gilman) 144 Wormwood (audio series) 472 “Young Goodman Brown” Wuthering Heights (E. Brönte) 328, 330, 331 (Hawthorne) 4 6, 49, 92, 140, 152, “Wuthering Heights” (Plath) 328, 330, 153 331 Wynne, Madeline Yale 144 Zero History (Gibson) 4 19 Zero Hour, The (radio series) 4 69 X-Files, The (TV series, Carter) 4 5, 52, Ž ižek, Slavoj 9 488, 497 Zombie (Oates) 306–7 Xue, Can Zombieland (fi lm, Fleischer) 53 “Embroidered Shoes and the Vexation of zombies 4 2, 50, 53, 165, 256, 280, Old Lady Yuan, The” 525 306–7, 311, 319, 322, 367, 465, 471, Old Floating Cloudd 525 472, 494, 508, 511–12