Issue #17 of the Irish Gothic Journal was published in Autumn 2018.
Full contents of Issue #17.
ARTICLES
- Mother, Monstrous: Motherhood, Grief, and the Supernatural in Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Médée – Shauna Louise Caffrey, p.4
- ‘Most foul, strange and unnatural’: Refractions of Modernity in Conor McPherson’s The Weir – Matthew Fogarty, p.17
- John Banville’s (Post)modern Reinvention of the Gothic Tale: Boundary, Extimacy, and Disparity in Eclipse (2000) – Mehdi Ghassemi, p.38
- The Ballerina Body-Horror: Spectatorship, Female Subjectivity and the Abject in Dario Argento’s Suspiria (1977) – Charlotte Gough, p.51
- In the Shadow of Cymraeg: Machen’s ‘The White People’ and Welsh Coding in the Use of Esoteric and Gothicised Languages – Angela Elisa Schoch/Davidson, p.70
BOOK REVIEWS: LITERARY AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
- Jessica Gildersleeve, Don’t Look Now – Anthony Ballas, p.95
- Plant Horror: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film, ed. – Dawn Keetley and Angela Tenga (New York: Palgrave, 2016) – Maria Beville, p.99
- Gustavo Subero, Gender and Sexuality in Latin American Horror Cinema: Embodiments of Evil (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) – Edmund Cueva, p.103
- Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, ed. by Dawn Keetley and Matthew Wynn Sivils (New York: Routledge, 2018) – Sarah Cullen, p.108
- Monsters in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching What Scares Us, ed. by Adam Golub and Heather Hayton (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017) – Laura Davidel, p.112
- Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion, ed. by Carol Margaret Davison and Monica Germanà (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017) – James Machin, p.118
- Catherine Spooner, Post-Millennial Gothic: Comedy, Romance, and the Rise of Happy Gothic (London, New York: Bloomsbury, 2017) – Barry Murnane, p.121
- Anna Watz, Angela Carter and Surrealism: ‘A Feminist Libertarian Aesthetic’ (London: Routledge, 2017) – John Sears, p.128
- S.T. Joshi, Varieties of the Weird Tale (New York: Hippocampus Press, 2017) – Phil Smith, p.131
BOOK REVIEWS: FICTION
FILM REVIEWS
- My Friend Dahmer, dir. by Marc Meyers (FilmRise, 2017) – Jess H. Anderson, p.139
- Beast, dir. by Michael Pearce – Máiréad Casey, p.143
- The First Purge, dir. by Gerard McMurray (Universal Pictures, 2018) – Caroline Egan, p.146
- The Ritual, dir. by David Bruckner (eOne Films, 2017) – Gerard Gibson, p.150
- Unsane, dir. by Steven Soderbergh (Bleecker Street, 2018) – Laura R. Kremmel, p.154
- The Cured, dir. by David Freyne (IFC Films, 2017) – Wendy Mooney, p.158
- Alien: Covenant, dir. by Ridley Scott (Twentieth Century Fox, 2017) – Antonio Sanna, p.162
- Ghost Stories, dir. by Andy Nyman, Jeremy Dyson (Lionsgate Films, 2018) – Carly Stevenson, p.1468
- A Quiet Place, dir. by John Krasinski (Paramount Pictures, 2018) – Richard Gough Thomas, p.171
- Jigsaw, dir. Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig (Lionsgate, 2017) – Gavin Wilkinson, p.173
FILM AND TELEVISION REVIEWS
- Hereditary (dir. by Ari Aster, 2018) and Sharp Objects (HBO, 2018) – Bernice M. Murphy, p.179
- Superstition (Syfy, 2017) – Miranda Corcoran, p.186
- Riverdale, Season Two (CW, 2018) – Richard Drumm, p.192
- The Strain (FX, 2014-17) – Thomas Sweet, p.196
GAME REVIEWS
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