California Gothic explores the California dream and its dark inversion as a nightmare, as illustrated in fiction, poetry, and film. California began as a litera

The first sustained examination of the depiction of American suburbia in gothic and horror films, television and literature from 1948 to the present day. Beginn

Focuses on the California Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial responses of early European settlers continue to influence American

The first volume to provide an interdisciplinary, comprehensive history of twentieth and twenty-first century Gothic culture.