Index 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 A Companion to American Gothic, First Edition. Edited by Charles L. Crow. © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Published 2014 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 560 Index 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 490, 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: Bless 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” 451 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: Cruddy: 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. 45 (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 Asimov, 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) 470 (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” Austen, 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) 453 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” 47–8, “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” 46 Big Sleep, The (Chandler) 477 Bradford, William 43, 124–5 Bigfoot 52 Bradstreet, Anne 45 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) 443 Gladiator, The 101 Brite, Poppy Z. 434–5, 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: Gypsy, 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” 438–9 Arthur Mervyn; or Memoirs of the Year “Call of Cthulhu, The” (Lovecraft) 271, 511 1793 , 110, 117–19, 127–8, 132 Cameron, James: Avatarr (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. William 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 469, 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: The Kingdom of this Freaks (fi l m ) 44 Worldd 2 3 4 Bruchac, Joseph: Whisper in the Carrie (S. King) 353, 356 Dark 229–30 Carroll, Jonathan 66 Bruhm, Steven 251 Carson, Rachel: Silent Springg 325 Buck, Douglas: Family Portraits: A Trilogy of Carter, Angela: “The Fall River Axe America (fi lm) 321 Murders” 144 Buell, Lawrence 155 Carter, Chris: The X Files (TV series) 45, Buffy Between the Lines ( podcast series) 472 52, 488, 497 Buffy the Vampire Slayerr (TV series, Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Whedon) 47, 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: Engendering 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) 451 Cabinet of Dr.