Danel Olson’s impressive collection, 21st Century Gothic, aims to encourage critical attention towards Gothic novels published since the year 2000. Noting the global spread of Gothic in the twenty-first century, the editor has consulted over 180 experts on the subject to help him compile a list of the 53 most significant Gothic novels from the first decade of the new century.

When we left off last time, I'd been asking if there was much consensus in these essays about what 21st century Gothic was up to. You'd mentioned the very intriguing idea of the 'dark gifting' that appears in so many of these texts, and you'd also noted...

Danel Olson is Professor of English at Lone Star College, Texas. He has compiled three collections of new Gothic stories and novel excerpts from around the world...

A sneak preview of the final Table of Contents for Danel Olson's 21st Century Gothic, forthcoming from Scarecrow in December 2010.