All Outputs (3)

'Co(s)mic Horror' (2013)
Book Chapter
Murray, C., & Corstorphine, K. (2013). 'Co(s)mic Horror'. In D. Simmons (Ed.), New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft (157-191). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137320964_10

H. P. Lovecraft, personally unassuming, hostile to modernity and pessimistic to the last, is perhaps an unlikely author to have inspired a cult global following, yet as Stephen Jones points out, “his relatively small body of work has influenced count... Read More about 'Co(s)mic Horror'.

'Anarchy in the USA: Community, Cannibalism,and Chaos in Joe Lansdale and Stephen King.' (2013)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K. (2013). 'Anarchy in the USA: Community, Cannibalism,and Chaos in Joe Lansdale and Stephen King.'. In A. Heise-Von Der Lippe (Ed.), Dark cartographies: exporing Gothic spaces (61-67). Inter-Disciplinary Press. https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848880993_008

This is a chapter (5535 words) that has been completed and accepted for a forthcoming collection to be published with Rodopi Press. It is a reading of two Gothic novels. It is completed and has been accepted. No title has been given as yet but the vo... Read More about 'Anarchy in the USA: Community, Cannibalism,and Chaos in Joe Lansdale and Stephen King.'.

'The blank darkness outside': Ambrose Bierce and wilderness Gothic at the end of the frontier (2013)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K. (2013). 'The blank darkness outside': Ambrose Bierce and wilderness Gothic at the end of the frontier. In A. Smith, & W. Hughes (Eds.), EcoGothic (120-133). Manchester University Press

This chapter examines the development of wilderness Gothic through the nineteenth century, looking at responses to the environment in the literary and political imagination. It focuses on Ambrose Bierce, whose Gothic horror tales offer an insight int... Read More about 'The blank darkness outside': Ambrose Bierce and wilderness Gothic at the end of the frontier.