Index
abject horror/abjection 1, 4, 5, 123, 125, Bara, Theda (Theodosia Goodman) 211
153, 165, 169, 206, 207, 210
abolitionists 132
addiction 208, 210, 212
afterlife 12, 13, 14, 36, 38, 40, 43, 88, 99,
127, 128, 147, 157, 158, 162, 166, 174,
176, 179, 192, 206; existence of 2, 6, 8,
22, 110; family reunion in 15, 45, 57,
58 Bengal 63
American Revolution 76, 77, 79, 81
American Transcendentalism 178
Amrohi, Kamal: Mahal (The Mansion)
(1949) 180, 182
angels 27, 35, 41, 46 n.2, 53, 55, 57, 58
Anglicanism 49, 51
antakāla (Sanskrit: the end of time) 176
anti-Gothic 9, 48
anti-horror 212
anti-Semitism 210
anti-technology, and the vampire 207
Anti-Jacobin Review 35, 39, 68, 71
aphanisis 45
Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love 126
apocalyptic fiction 105
Arata, Stephen D. 120, 123
Ariès, Philippe 3, 12, 21, 23, 41, 42, 44, 45,
46 n.2, 51, 55, 147, 148, 159
ars moriendi (Latin: the art of dying) 41,
151
atonement 51, 59
Atropos, the Goddess of Death 126
Banjaran (The Gipsy) (1991) 186
Bantry Bay landings 70, 72
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Bauman, Zigmunt: Mortality, Immortality
& Other Life Strategies (1992) 2
‘beautiful death’ 51, 55, 147
Beck, Ulrich 131, 137
Bedlam (1946) 177
beheading 65, 81
Black Mirror 13, 218, 229
Blair, Robert: The Grave (1743) 8, 21, 37,
41
Blake, Robert 41
Blake, William: ‘Christ Descending into
the Grave’ 43, 44, 45; ‘The Death of
the Good Old Man’ 39, 40, 41, 42;
‘Death of the Strong Wicked Man’ 41,
42, 43; illustrations for The Grave 8, 34,
38, 39, 41; ‘The Meeting of a Family in
Heaven’ 37, 38; Milton 41, 46 n.5; ‘The
Reunion of the Soul & the Body’ 37, 38,
39; ‘Robert’ 41; ‘The Soul hovering over
the Body reluctantly parting with Life’
37, 39; A Vision of the Last Judgment
(1810) 44; ‘William’ 41
Boaden, James: Aurelio and Miranda
(1798) 10; Fountainville Forest (1794)
68; The Italian Monk (1797) 68; The
Secret Tribunal (1795) 68
body: androgynous 45; and soul
connection 37–8, 41, 42, 99; see also
corpse
Body Snatchers, The (1945) 177
Bollywood 11, 184
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Bonnet, Charles: Conjectures Concerning
the Nature of Future Happiness (1785)
40; Contemplation de la Nature (1764)
36: Palingéné Philosophique (1769) 36,
37
Book of Common Prayer, The 49
Botting, Fred 22, 48, 91, 97, 105, 109, 110
Brantlinger, Patrick 106, 119, 120, 123
Bronfen, Elisabeth 1, 2, 7, 14
Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights (1847)
6, 180
Brooker, Charlie: ‘Be Right Back’ 13,
218–31; Black Mirror (2011–present)
13, 218, 229
Browne, Thomas: ‘Hydriotaphia, Urne-
Burial, Or a Discourse of the Sepulchrall
Urnes lately found in Norfolk’ (1658)
27
Browning, Robert 155
Buddhism, as a religion of death 121
burial 4, 23, 24, 27, 35, 91, 93, 109, 130,
165
Burke, Edmund: Reflections on the
Revolution in France (1790) 5, 63, 64,
131
Byron, Lord: Cain: A Mystery (1821) 49,
98; Heaven and Earth: A Mystery (1823)
49; Manfred (1817) 10, 88, 89, 91, 98,
100; The Prisoner of Chillon (1816)
10, 88, 89–92, 99, 100; Sardanapalus
(1821) 10, 88, 89, 98, 99, 100; The Two
Foscari (1821) 10, 88, 89, 90, 92–100
Calvinism 57
camera, as phallic instrument 208, 214
cannibalism 122, 123, 124, 131, 132, 133,
135, 137, 140 n.8, 140 n.9, 141
Capuana, Luigi: Giacinta (1879) 154
castle: Indian version of (mahal; haveli)
181, 185; as space of the dead 175
Castle, Terry 7, 15, 22, 23, 29
Chekhov, Anton 12, 211; ‘The Black Monk’
(1894) 164; ‘ A Dead Body’ (1885)
159–61, 164–9; ‘In the Graveyard’
(1884) 166–8; preoccupied with his
illness 160, 170;  ‘Terror’ (1892) 168–9
child abuse 202 n.2
child revenants 13
childhood, and perfection 193
children, death of: as abnormal 194, 198,
201; as the beginning of adventure
193, 194, 195; as defying death 199;
demystified 195; as fact of life 193, 198,
202; as grotesque 199, 200; as guarantee
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path to immortality 194; as perched
on the grave 198; as premature 196; as
preserving childhood 193; as preserving
innocence 193; and the sins of the
fathers 194, 201; as tragic 199, 200
children, ghostly 192, 196, 197, 201; see
also Uncanny children
children’s Gothic 201
children’s literature 13, 191–203
Christ 24, 36, 43, 44, 45, 46 n.4, 46 n.5, 51,
59 n.1, 121, 139
Christianity 8, 24, 29, 36, 37, 41,45, 51, 58,
91, 98, 99, 119, 121, 123, 127, 128, 159,
162, 177, 179; and the Gothic 9; as a
religion of eternal life 24, 50, 121, 127,
128, 147, 193, 199, 206, 209
cinema: as addictive technology 13, 204,
208, 210, 212, 213; as ambivalent
technology 205, 206, 208; and Count
Orlok’s terror 205; as deadly technology
211, 212; and death attitudes 206,
211; as erotic/seductive medium
207, 211, 212; and fetishism 13, 207,
210; as fixated on death 10, 205, 208;
as resurrecting ghosts 12, 205; as
scientific 204; as supernatural 204;
as transgressive technology 204; as
uncanny 186, 187, 204, 205, 206; as
vampiric medium 13, 205
cinematic spectatorship 177, 208, 213,
214; psychosexual theory 207, 210; and
race 210; and the vampire 208, 210,
213–15
cinematic voyeurism 207, 208, 210, 214
clairvoyance 49, 59
Clover, Carol J. 207, 213, 214
collective unconscious 152
Collins, Wilkie: Armadale (1866) 161
consolation literature 3, 215; Protestant 15
Coppola, Francis Ford: Bram Stoker’s
Dracula (1992) 216 n.1
corpse: animated 3, 22, 112, 139; and
anxiety about an afterlife 3, 22, 23,
120, 206; Ayesha as 126; and the body
politic 119–20; as conundrum 125–6;
as curative 16 n.2; female, see female
corpse; and the French Revolution 5;
and individuality/subjectivity 3, 4; as
inter-generational signifier 5, 112; as
memento mori 29; as multivalent signifier
4, 5, 7, 174; and power dynamics
4, 5; taboo in public sphere 16 n.3;
as topography 117–18; as uncanny
subject/object 4
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Crimean War 158
Cromek, R. H. 34, 35, 38, 45, 46 n.1
‘cult of the dead’ 23
culture of death 12, 14; Protestant 14;
Roman Catholic 14
Cuvier, Georges 10, 104, 105
cyborgs 206
Dafoe, Willem 209
damnation 84, 213
Dangerous Ishq (Dangerous Liaisons)
(2012) 200
danse macabre 209
Darwinism 119
Day of Judgment 48, 58, 59, 188
dead, the: digital 13, 219, 220, 222, 229,
230; dream-journeys with 40; falling in
love with 83, 191; and intergenerational
indebtedness 15; and intergenerational
inheritance 15; memorialisation of 7, 15;
as Other 174; as power/powerlessness
2, 4, 5, 67, 74, 85, 92, 130, 132, 147,
150, 204, 205, 215; as representative
of our personal past 76, 77; threat of 1,
122, 131, 165, 174; unburied 109; as
uncanny 2, 4, 29, 50, 174;
death: acknowledging 46; and the age of
Reason/Enlightenment 2–3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 9–10, 14, 16 n.2, 22–3, 49, 63, 147,
179, 204, 206; ambivalence about 5,
7, 14, 206, 208, 214; and appropriate
mourning 43; as birthright 51, 58;
Buddhism as a religion of 121; changing
attitudes towards 7, 8, 14, 147; and
Christianity 9, 24, 51, 58, 121, 159;
cults of 11, 116–29; demystification
195; as double of life 151; and
ecological concerns 11, 121; as emblem
of the Freudian uncanny 2; and the
Enlightenment 2–3, 4, 5, 6, 14, 16 n.1,
22, 48–9, 179; and fear of change 6; and
fetishisation 13, 14, 207; as a gift to the
living 24; of God 148; of humanity 104,
113; as invisible 12; and medievalism
169; as metonym for heaven 9; as
misrepresented 14; monomania about
7, 55; nationalist discourse about 1, 8; as
personified 6, 26, 50, 56, 195; and poetic
revelation 24; by proxy 7, 28, 215; and
redemption 174; as a release from life
51, 91; and the Resurrection 22, 24, 35,
39, 50; and spectacle 9–10, 51, 63–75,
130, 151, 152–3, 214, 215 (see also
execution; guillotine); of subjectivity 4,
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6, 76, 148, 151, 211, 228; as terror 1, 15,
27, 48, 55, 117, 120, 154,158, 169, 215;
and transcendence 10, 88–100, 109; as
unknowable 14, 49, 229
Death and the Maiden 53
deathbeds 43, 51, 55, 59 n.1, 122
death defiance 17
death denial 3, 17, 140 n.2, 215; and
cinema audiences 206
death drive (Freudian) 4, 10, 89, 92, 93, 94,
125, 126, 164, 211
death scenes 10, 41, 42, 43, 55, 57, 58, 84,
124, 209, 211, 212, 213, 214; Christian
40, 51; non-sectarian 58; private 224;
public 224
decadence 119, 155 n.5
Decadentism 146, 154 n.4
decapitation 64, 66, 72, 83
degeneration: cultural 10; global 10;
individual 11, 119; national 11, 119
De Mille, James: A Strange Manuscript
Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888) 11,
124–5, 130
Derrida, Jacques: The Gift of Death (1996)
24; Spectres of Marx (1994) 221
Descartes, René 138
Detroit 136, 140 n.10
Diamond Jubilee (1897) 119
Dickens, Charles 155
digital undeath 13
doppelgängers/doubles 79, 168, 209;
child as 148; father–son 148, 155 n.12;
femme fatale and homme fatal as 210;
as harbinger of death 12, 147–8; as
harbinger of immortality 148; portrait
as 41; psychoanalytic studies of in
literature 155 n.12; see also Dostoevsky
(Dostoevskii), Fyodor (Fedor); Orlok,
Count; portrait
Dostoevsky (Dostoevskii), Fyodor
(Fedor): The Brothers Karamazov
(1880) 155 n.12, 158; Crime and
Punishment (1866) 161; The Double
(1846) 168
Drury Lane 67, 73
dystopia 116, 117
ecoGothic 10, 103–15
Edison Studios 205
Egyptology 11, 119
‘electronic presence’ 220
elegy 21, 24, 35
embodiment, theory of 36
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 175,
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63; definition of 132; and haunted
consciousness 7, 23; and mass
execution 10–11; rhetoric 85; and the
Scapigliatura 145; and superstition 16
n.1; and threats to subjectivity 4, 6
epigenesis 36
eternal life 12, 21, 209; Christianity as a
religion of 9, 27, 43, 50, 121; as granted
by technology 208
Evangelicalism 51, 59 n.1
Everyman 150
evolution 11
execution 9–10, 65–7
extinction: and Gothic tropes 114 n.2; of
species 10–11, 103–14
Ewers, Hans Heinz: The Student of Prague
(1913) 155 n.12
fantastic literature 12, 59–60, 118, 145–7,
151–2, 154, 155 n.6, 155 n.7, 168, 169,
195
Faust 175, 176, 209
Fedotov, Georgy Petrovich: The Russian
Religious Mind (1960) 173
female corpse 5, 13; and abjection 1, 4, 5,
123, 125, 153, 165, 174, 206, 207; and
the Bakhtinian grotesque 5; cultural
addiction to 13; fetishisation of 13, 207;
pleasure derived from 13, 207
Female Gothic 43
femme fatale 84, 85, 118, 178, 209, 211
Feuillade, Louis: Les Vampires (1915–16)
205
film noir 12, 177–87
fin-de-siècle 11, 117, 119, 147, 154 n.4
fossils 119
French cinema 205
French Directory (1795–9) 16 n.3
French Revolution 5, 9, 10, 11, 64–74; as
anti-Gothic 9; as Gothic 9
Freud, Sigmund 9; Beyond the Pleasure
Principle (1920) 89, 93, 94, 126;
‘Dostoevsky and Parricide’ (1928) 155
n.12; The Theme of the Three Caskets
(1913) 126; ‘The Uncanny’ (1919) 125,
148; see also death drive; uncanny
Fuseli, Henry 36, 38–9, 40, 41, 43
Gaiman, Neil: The Graveyard Book (2008)
191, 194–6, 198
George Washington 79
German Expressionism 179
Gertsen, Aleksandr 158; My Past and
Thoughts (1868) 158
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children 13; and extinction 114 n.2;
and France 108–9; Gothic and 50;
and history 10, 76–8, 81, 199; Indian
12, 179; of modernity 9; and national
identity 76–87; and Purgatory 22;
Radcliffe’s 28, 29; and retribution 194;
and technology 12, 205, 218–19, 220,
221, 229; and Young Adult literature
191
ghost story, the 7, 76, 78, 79, 86, 160, 192,
218, 219, 221, 223, 224, 228, 229
ghostburbs 132, 139 n.1
ghost-seeing 8, 22
Goddu, Teresa 77, 78, 86
Goffman, Erving: The Presentation of Self in
Everyday Life (1959) 225
Goldman Sachs 139 n.1
Goldsmith, Oliver 26
good death 42, 51
Gordon Riots (1780) 67
Gorey, Edward: The Gashlycrumb Tinies
(1963) 196
Gothic-fantastic 158, 170 n.14
Gothic literature: Anglo-American 6, 11,
14; and the Christian conception of
death 177; and death by proxy 7, 215;
and death’s mystery 9, 24, 29, 48–9, 50,
53, 117, 160; and the fetishisation of
death 14; and mourning 7; and ‘negated
grief’ 7; twenty-first century 12–14,
191–231
graveyard, and the historical past 25
Graveyard Poetry 15, 21–33, 35; aesthetics
of 22, 27; and the future 8, 25; as
prefiguring the Gothic 26
Gray, Thomas: ‘Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard’ (1751) 21, 23, 24, 26
Green Revolution 11
guillotine: as instrument of rationalism 63,
82; and the mechanisation of terror 10,
63; spectacles reenacted in Britain 65–7;
as symbolic of castration 83
Haggard, H. Rider 11; Allan Quatermain
(1887) 11, 117, 121, 122, 126, 127,
128; Ayesha: The Return of She (1905)
121, 127, 128; The Days of My Life
(1926) 121; King Solomon’s Mines
(1885) 117; She (1887) 117, 118–24,
126–8; as terrorised by death 120
Hamlet 15, 23, 127, 155 n.12
Harlan, Veit: Jüd Suss (1940) 210
Hartnett, Sonya: The Ghost’s Child (2007)
191, 192, 200–1, 202
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haunting 7, 9, 13, 14, 56, 57, 83, 84, 86, Italian Decadents 154 n.4
162, 163, 165, 181, 187, 192, 194, 197, Italian fantastic 12, 145–56
198, 209, 218–30; of consciousness 7, Italian Romanticism 154 n.1, 154 n.4
22, 23; and digital technologies 13; and Italian Unification (1861) 145, 147, 154
historical repression 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, n.4, 155 n.8
86, 199; by history/past lives 179, 187; Ivy (1947) 177
hauntology 221
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 10–11: ‘The Jacobinism 70
Ambitious Guest’ (1835) 103–7 Jalland, Pat 51, 59 n.1, 193
111–14 James, Henry 160, 161
Haymarket 66, 67 Janam Janam (Forever Together) (1988)
heaven 9, 25, 26, 28, 31, 34, 37, 38, 45, 186
50, 51, 54, 57, 58, 91, 99, 193, 200; Janes, Regina 72, 81, 86
Protestant beliefs about 22 Jefferson, Thomas 5, 105
Herzog, Werner: Nosferatu (1979) 208, ‘Jingo Methodist’ 119
210, 211
Hippler, Fritz: The Eternal Jew (1940) 210 Kagti, Reema: Talaash (2012) 186–7
historical fiction 106, 145 Kali 186
history, as Gothic 9, 10, 76–86 Kant, Immanuel 132, 133, 135, 138, 139
Hoffman, E. T. A. 146: The Sandman karma 179
(1816) 147 Karz (Debt) (1980) 186
hollowgast 199 Karzzz (Debt) (2008) 186
Hollywood film 134 Kazanjian, David 9
Hollywood Gothic noir 177, 178, 179, King Louis XIV (1754–93) 65–7
180, 185 Kingsley, Charles: The Water Babies (1863)
Holocaust 199 193
homme fatal 210, 211 Kipling, Rudyard: ‘Recessional’ (1897) 119
‘horror Gothic’ 31 Kristeva, Julia 64, 125, 149, 165, 207
horror film 177, 179, 212 Kudrat (Divine Power) (1981) 186
Howells, Coral Ann 7, 160
Hughes, Robert 10, 83, 86 Lacan, Jacques 38, 39, 45, 46, 151
hypnotism 49 Lang, Andrew 117, 122
Larkin, Philip 48
immortality 2, 3, 21, 58, 91, 118, 128, 147, Larpent, John, Examiner of Plays 67
148, 151; and cultural production 8, Lavater, Johann Caspar 8, 35, 40:
15, 24; as a process of self-making 98; Aphorisms on Man (1788) 36; Aussichten
religious debates about 36; symbolic in die Ewigkeit (1768–86) 36; Essays
107, 110, 113; and technology 13 on Physiognomy (1789) 36; Von der
imperial adventure novels 11 Physiognomik (1772) 36
Imperial Gothic 119 Lewis, Matthew: The Castle Spectre (1798)
Imperialism, British 12, 105, 119, 123, 125 73; The Monk (1796) 6, 10, 25, 30–1,
Imperialism, European 176 67–70, 73, 91, 92, 109
incest 70, 155 n.12 Lincoln, Abraham 135
indigenous peoples 105, 112 living death 30, 56, 89, 90, 97
infant mortality 30; twentieth century 13, Lodger, The (1944) 177
193; Victorian era 13, 193 Lost World fiction 10, 11, 116–29
inheritance (Gothic concept) 9, 15, 58,95,
110, 223, 224 McCormack, Catherine 209
invisible death, the 12 MacDonald, George: At the Back of the
Irish Rebellion (1798) 68 North Wind (1868–9) 193
Irving, Washington 10, 76–87; ‘The ‘machine culture’ 213
Adventure of the German Student’ Mahābhārata 176
(1824) 10; ‘The Legend of Sleepy male gaze 207, 214
Hollow’ (1820) 10; ‘Rip Van Winkle’ Malkovich, John 208
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Manzoni, Alessandro: The Betrothed NASA space probe 137

(1842) 145, 147, 154
Marriott, Sir John 119
Marsh, Richard: The Beetle (1897) 123
Masing-Delic, Irene: Abolishing Death
159 necrocracy 5; and Roman Catholicism 6
masochism 94
mass death 5, 6, 9, 12, 67, 74, 77
Mather, Cotton 105; History of Witchcraft
(1693) 81
matricide 70
Maturin, Charles Robert: Melmoth the
Wanderer (1820) 31, 163, 175–6
Mehbooba (Beloved) (1976) 186
melancholia (pathological form of
mourning) 1, 9
Méliès, Georges 205
memento mori 2, 4, 5, 11, 14, 15, 21, 24, 27,
28, 29, 30, 31, 43, 56, 105, 110, 113, 130,
151, 222
memorialisation 2, 6, 7, 13
Merhige, E. Elias: Shadow of the Vampire
(2000) 13, 204–17
mesmerism 9, 49, 52
metaphysical Gothic 6
Meyer, Stephenie: ‘Twilight’ series
(2005–8) 191
Middle Ages 159
Milan (Union) (1967) 186
Milton, John 25, 26, 97: ‘Il Penseroso’
(1645/1646) 23; Paradise Lost (1667)
98; Samson Agonistes (1671) 89
Mintz, Sidney W. 140 n.3
miscarriage 202
Mishra, Vijay 12, 14, 174–88
misogyny 117
modernity: and melancholia 1, 9; and
mourning 6, 9
monsters 50, 136, 199, 205
More, Hannah: Village Politics (1792) 68
morphine 211, 212, 213
mortmain 5
Moss Rose (1947) 177
mortality, as a burden 50, 98
mortification 30
mourning 2, 6, 13, 14, 15, 28, 29, 30, 43, 55,
131, 225; and being 15; and melancholia
9; as obligation in Gothic literature
224 physiognomy 36, 57, 167, 171 n.21
mourning rituals 6, 23, 55
mr·tyu (Sanskrit: death) 176
Murnau, Friedrich: Nosferatu: A Symphony
of Horror (1922) 179, 205, 208–16,
216 n.2
mysterium tremendum 175, 187
Native American tales 80
Nazi death camp 198
Nazi propaganda cinema 198
Nazism 199
necroculture, Victorian England as a 6
necromancy 13, 132, 204; technological
204–18
necropoetics 1, 6, 14
necropolitics 2, 6, 14
Necromanticism 8
neomort 4
networked spectrality 13, 218–31
Newgate 67
New Woman 118
Nirvana 149
Nordau, Max: Degeneration (1892) 119
novel of faith 9, 59
Noys, Benjamin: The Culture of Death
(2005) 12
nuclear apocalypse 107
occult, the 118, 120, 122, 123, 127, 128,
146, 152, 153, 204
OPEC 136
Orlok, Count 205–6; as double to Greta
210; as double to Murnau 209; as
embodiment of cinematic technology 206
paedophilia 202 n.2
Paine, Thomas 5; Rights of Man (1791) 69
paranormal 152, 178; powers of the mind
9, 49; romance genre 191, 202 n.1
Paris Morgue 153, 155 n.13
Parisot, Eric 23, 24, 35, 38, 43, 44
Parnell, Thomas 23, 26, 27; ‘An Essay on
the Different Stiles of Poetry’ (1713)
26; ‘A Night-Piece on Death’ (1722)
26–8, 29
parricide 150, 155 n.12
patricide 155 n.12
Paulson, Ronald 6, 64, 65
Peirce, Charles Sanders 39
Penal Laws, Ireland 72
Peter Pan, as a dead baby 200
Phhir (Once Again) (2011) 186
photography, as method of embalming 205
pike, execution by 72
Pitt, Brad 137
plague 103, 108, 109, 118, 154 n.2, 211
Poe, Edgar Allan 11, 146; Ms. Found in a
Bottle (1833) 138; ‘The Philosophy of
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‘pornography’ of death 6
portrait, as uncanny double 181
post-Darwinism 119
post-Enlightenment 5, 7, 14, 16 n.2
Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1946)
177
Powell, Michael: Peeping Tom (1960) 207
pralaya (Sanskrit: apocalypse) 176
pre-Enlightenment 4, 119, 135
preformationism 36
prescience 49
Priestley, Chris: Uncle Montague’s Tales of
Terror (2007) 191, 192, 196–8
primitivism 120
Protestantism 22
Purgatory 7, 22, 44
Pushkin, Aleksandr: ‘The Queen of
Spades’ (1834) 168
Qayamat 174
Queen Charlotte 45
Queen Victoria 119, 120
Radcliffe, Ann: The Mysteries of Udolpho
(1794) 27, 28, 29; A Sicilian Romance
(1792) 93
Rank, Otto: der Doppelgänger (1914) 147
Reeve, Clara 175
Reign of Terror (September 1793–July
1794) 5, 64, 77, 82, 84; see also
September Massacres
Reign of Terror (1949) 177
reincarnation 12, 121, 128, 177–87
religious novel 9, 51, 53
resurrection 22, 24, 35, 39, 50, 218
retribution 28, 110, 118, 179
return of the repressed 63, 77, 78, 133, 187
revolution: age of 8; cultural 8, 204, 208;
revalorisation of concept 63–4
Revolutionary Gothic 10, 63, 72
Reynolds, George: Bantry Bay (1797) 10,
67, 70–2
Riggs, Ransom: Miss Peregrine’s Home
for Peculiar Children (2011) 191–2,
198–200
Robespierre, Maximilien 70
Robinson, Henry Crabb 39
Roman Catholicism 6, 11, 30
Romero, George A.: Dawn of the Dead
(1978) 136, 138; Night of the Living
Dead (1968) 135, 136, 137, 140 n.5,
140 n.12
Roy, Bimal: Madhumati (1958) 8, 182–7
Royle, Nicholas 2, 49, 126
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Russian folk belief 157, 160
Russian naturalism 12
Russian Orthodoxy 159
Russian realism 12, 157, 159–60
Sahu, Kishore: Nadiya Ke Paar (Across the
River) (1948) 180–1, 186–7
Said, Edward 119
Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail: The Golovlev
Family (1875–80) 169 n.3
Scapigliatura 12, 145–6
Schreck, Max 209–15
Schröder, Greta 209, 211
science fiction 106, 207, 218, 228
séances 121, 158
Second Coming 188
Sensation Fiction 160–1, 167–8
September Massacres 6, 70
Shadow of the Vampire (2000) 13,
204–17
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein; or The Modern
Prometheus (1818) 3–6, 116, 205, 206,
208, 212; The Last Man (1826) 108–11;
‘On Ghosts’ (1824) 1, 4
Shiva, Vandana 138, 140 n.13
silent film 155 n.12, 179, 205, 211, 212
‘sins of the father’ 10, 90, 110, 112
slave plantations 132
slaves 140 n.3
Smith, Horace: Mesmerism: A Mystery
(1845) 9, 48–60
snuff porn 212, 214
So Evil My Love (1948) 177
social contract: between the living and the
dead 19
somnambulism 52
sororicide 70
soul 2, 8, 21, 22, 23, 25, 30, 31, 34–47,
50, 52, 54, 55, 57, 59, 91, 99, 121, 127,
139, 147, 158, 163, 174, 199, 206, 211,
215
Spanish Inquisition 31
spectres 15, 28, 29, 94, 180, 183, 187, 199,
224; of children 192, 196, 197, 201; of
cultural decline 10, 11, 130–4; and the
Enlightenment 22–3; and France 108
spiritualism 51, 120, 157–8, 169 n.3
Sterritt, David 213
Stevenson, Robert Louis: The Strange Case
of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) 214
Stoker, Bram: Dracula (1897) 123, 147,
209, 210, 214, 216 n.1
sublime/sublimity 1, 21, 24, 27, 28, 41,
103, 104, 105, 109, 111, 112, 113, 150,
153, 154, 175, 179, 181
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suicide 161, 165, 197 United Irishmen 72

Swedenborg, Emanuel 34, 40 utopia 116–17, 137
Symmes, John Cleves 116
vamp 210–11
Tarchetti, Igina Ugo: Fantastic Tales ‘vampire squid’ 139 n.1
(1869) 146, 155 n.7; ‘I fatali’ 12, vampires 4, 13, 132, 135, 139 n.1, 146,
145–56; Minimal Ideas on the Novel 149, 191, 194, 195, 202 n.1, 204–17;
(1865) 145; ‘Why Doesn’t Italy have and anti-technology 207; and attitude
novels? Or at least why doesn’t it have towards death 206; and cinematic
original novels?’ 145 spectatorship 208, 210, 213–15; and
technology, and immortality 13, 208, 212, female sexuality 202 n.1; and Jews 210,
215, 218 211; and technology 13, 204–17; and
technophilia 207 women 206–7, 211–12
technophobia 207 Venetian Inquisition 95
Tennyson, Alfred Lord: ‘Tithonus’ (1859) Venice 88, 92–7, 99
209 Victorians, and death 8–9, 50
terror: mechanisation of 10, 63; rule by 125 vināśa (Sanskrit: destruction) 176
Thanatology Studies 2, 3 virtual remains 224, 230
Thanatos 149 vivisepulture 112
Theatre Act (1737) 73, 74 n.1
thought transference 49 Walking Dead, The 136, 140 n.6
Todorov, Tzvetan 59, 154 Wall Street 139 n.1
Tolstoy (Tolstoi), Ivan (Lev) 169: Anna Walpole, Horace; The Castle of Otranto
Karenina (1877) 158; on cinema 13, (1764) 1, 10, 25, 35, 89, 130, 133, 139,
204–5, 208, 213; The Death of Ivan Il’ich 175, 176
(1880) 159; ‘Three Deaths’ (1859) 159; Walmsley, Peter 1, 2, 8
War and Peace (1865–7) 161 Wandering Jew 120
torture 92, 94–9, 132 Warwick, Alexandra 120
Tourneur, Jacques: I Walked With a Webster Goodwin, Sarah 2, 4, 14, 15,
Zombie (1943) 134 159
Townshend, Dale 1, 7, 28, 29, 192, 224 Weinstock, Jeffrey 206
True Blood (2008–14) 208 Wellington, Duke of 74
Turgenev, Ivan 12, 168, 169; ‘Bezhin werewolves 191
Meadow’ (1851) 159, 161–4; and death White Zombie (1932) 134
fixation 160, 170 n.6; Fathers and Sons Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Vindication of
(1862) 152 the Rights of Men (1790) 130–1; A
Tyburn 67 Vindication of the Rights of Women
(1792) 131
Udan Khatola (The Flying Machine) (1955) World War Z (2013) 137
181 Wordsworth, William 5, 85
uncanny (unheimlich) 2, 4, 5, 29, 34, 41,
49, 50, 56, 81, 118, 120, 123, 125, 126, Young, Edward: The Complaint: or Night-
127, 148, 152, 154, 176–87, 206, 218, Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality
219, 222, 225–9; cinema as 204–6; and (1742–5) 3, 21, 215
death 174; as under-theorised in Indian
culture 187 zombie apocalypse 135–6
Uncanny children 194 zombie cinema 10, 136
undead, the 7, 11, 13, 14, 15, 131, 137, 139, zombie theme park 136–7
176, 179, 204, 206, 207; and the Gothic zombie 11, 130–42; as ecological avenger
1; as uncanny 5, 179, 206 135; as Gothic revitaliser 132; as the
undeath 207, 208, 209; era of 3; of history Other of modernity 137; as spectre of
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