Kirsty MacDonald on Scottish Gothic

The restoration of Strawberry Hill has begun!

Analysis of one of the author´s short stories

...killed the protagonist

This is the Fifth issue of the well-known on-line publication and it contains Ada Lovelace's article about the representation of women in Japanese Gothic literature: Ghostly and Monstrous Manifestations of Women: Edo to contemporary It is worth checking it!  irishgothichorrorjournal.homestead.com/    

"I’m having a difficult time containing my disordered self" (American Psycho: 301).   Last week while teaching Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho it struck me how relevant this text is to our current moment of crisis, as we continue to face the horror of global economic meltdown. Although Reagan’s "voodoo economics" of the 1980s may seem a far cry from the toxic debts of 2008, there is an uncanny dimension to our present financial woes that echoes the cultural script of American Psycho. There is something particularly troubling about this "unca

Globalgothic: an Uncanny Blending of Loaded Words

Restaging the Grand Tour Again?

Zombies and Big Brother

MACABRE: A Journey Through Australia’s Darkest Fears: Forthcoming 2009 This anthology shows that although the Australian history of horror is relatively short, -the first short story was published in 1836- over the course of the years a considerable number of texts can be found thanks to the restless work of some researchers who have explored  Australia´s dark past. One of the editors of this anthology is Dr Marty Young, writer, publisher and scientist. He is also the president of the Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA),  www.australianhorror.com/index.php whi