Issue #16 of the Irish Gothic Journal was published in Autumn 2017.
Full contents of Issue #16.
ARTICLES
- ‘A devout but nearly silent listener’: dialogue, sociability, and Promethean individualism in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) – Bill Hughes, p.4
- ‘I say to you that I am dead!’: Medical Experiment and the Limits of Personhood in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar’ (1845) – Hannah Lauren Murray p.22
- Gothic Ruins and Remains: Disorderly Burials and Respectable Bodies in Irish Medieval Ecclesiastical Buildings, 1824-1900 – Niamh NicGhabhann p.41
- Helping Eleanor Come Home: A Reassessment of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House – Brittany Roberts p.67
- ‘Finding Infinity Round the Corner’: Doublings, Dualities and Suburban Strangeness in Arthur Machen’s The London Adventure – Sam Wiseman p.94
BOOK REVIEWS: LITERARY AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
- Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the Twenty-First Century, Stacey Abbott — Mary Bridgeman p.108
- Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal, Marie Mulvey-Roberts —Edmund Cueva p.115
- The Gothic Condition: Terror, History and the Psyche, David Punter— Laura Davidel p.119
- Bram Stoker and the Gothic: Formations to Transformations, ed. by Catherine Wynne — Aoife Dempsey p.124
- Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R. James, Patrick J. Murphy — Dewi Evans p.128
- Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange, Adam Scovell — Dawn Keatley p.128
- Spirits and Spirituality in Victorian Fiction – Jen Cadwallader p.139
- Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, Ruth Franklin — Samantha Landau p.145
- Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic: Fifty-Four Neglected Authors, Actors, Artists and Others, ed. by Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice M. Murphy — Donna Mitchell p.153
- Spanish Gothic: National Identity, Collaboration and Cultural Adaptation, Xavier Aldana Reyes — Christina Morin p.156
- Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture: Technogothics, ed. by Justin D. Edwards — Conor Reid p.160
- Antichrist, Amy Simmons — Kate Robertson p.165
- Contemporary Scottish Gothic: Mourning, Authenticity, and Tradition, Timothy C. Baker — Daniel Southward p.169
BOOK REVIEWS: FICTION
- Martina Devlin, The House Where it Happened — Nicola Darwood, p.175
- Tim Hodkinson, The Undead — Brian Ó Faoláin, p.177
BOOKS RECEIVED, 179
FILM REVIEWS
- Get Out — Emily Bourke, p.180
- Beware the Slenderman — Sarah Cleary, p.184
- The Girl With All The Gifts — Gerard Gibson, p.188
- It Comes at Night — Bernice M. Murphy, p.192
- IT — Kate Roddy, p.196
- The Beguiled — Richard Gough Thomas, p.200
- Pet — Gavin Wilkinson, p.202
TELEVISION AND GRAPHIC-NOVEL REVIEWS
- The Handmaid’s Tale — Sarah Cullen, p.206
- Emerald City — Steve Gronert Ellerhoff, p.210
- Providence, Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows — Gerard Gibson, p.214
- Riverdale, Season 1 and Jughead: The Hunger, Frank Tieri and Michael Walsh — Silvia E. Herrera, p.219
- Ash vs Evil Dead, Season Two – Noelle Mann, p.216
- Hannibal, Seasons 1-3 — Antonio Sanna, p.228
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS, p.233
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