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The Crawling Chaos: H. P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and ‘Dungeon Crawler’ Videogames (2021)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K., & Crofts, M. (in press). The Crawling Chaos: H. P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and ‘Dungeon Crawler’ Videogames. In A. Alcala Gonzalez, & C. H. Sederholm (Eds.), Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming (213-226). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367713065

Manuel Aguirre’s The Closed Space: Horror Literature and Western Symbolism (1990) drew critical focus to the importance of enclosed spaces and Gothic literature; caverns, catacombs and labyrinths. For Aguirre ‘the world is defined in horror literatur... Read More about The Crawling Chaos: H. P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and ‘Dungeon Crawler’ Videogames.

“Rats is bogies I tell you, and bogies is rats”: Rats, repression and the Gothic mode (2019)
Book Chapter
Crofts, M., & Hatter, J. (2020). “Rats is bogies I tell you, and bogies is rats”: Rats, repression and the Gothic mode. In R. Heholt, & M. Edmundson (Eds.), Gothic animals: Uncanny otherness and the animal with-out (127-140). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34540-2_8

Rats are inherently Gothic animals—uncannily intelligent, cannibalistic, constantly present, often unseen but constantly watching. As a single entity, or as part of a pack, the rat is a powerful vehicle for delivering horror in the popular Gothic ima... Read More about “Rats is bogies I tell you, and bogies is rats”: Rats, repression and the Gothic mode.

Monsters of History: Tyranny, Torture and the Gothic (2019)
Thesis
Crofts, M. R. Monsters of History: Tyranny, Torture and the Gothic. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4739178

The Gothic tyrant is a figure that not only plays a vital role in generating fear and manipulating the balance of power in Gothic fiction, but one that has survived throughout the mode’s changing form. It is tyranny that frequently turns Gothic tales... Read More about Monsters of History: Tyranny, Torture and the Gothic.

Dickens’s gothic double: A tale of two cities and Watts Phillips’s The dead heart (2018)
Journal Article
Crofts, M. (2018). Dickens’s gothic double: A tale of two cities and Watts Phillips’s The dead heart. Victoriographies, 8(3), 290-306. https://doi.org/10.3366/vic.2018.0319

Dickens’s extraordinary literary reputation and close associations with the Victorian period can be seen in action through the lasting comparisons between his most read novel, A Tale of Two Cities (1859), and a now obscure play by the writer Watts Ph... Read More about Dickens’s gothic double: A tale of two cities and Watts Phillips’s The dead heart.

"The Fairy Tale That Won’t Behave"?: Ageing and Gender in Neil Gaiman’s Stardust and Matthew Vaughn’s Film Adaptation (2016)
Journal Article
Crofts, M., & Hatter, J. (2016). "The Fairy Tale That Won’t Behave"?: Ageing and Gender in Neil Gaiman’s Stardust and Matthew Vaughn’s Film Adaptation. Femspec, 16(1), pp.19-43

Fairy stories, it seems, are growing up. Neil Gaiman’s novel Stardust (1999) and Matthew Vaughn’s 2007 film adaptation of the same name are just two examples of the form’s recent resurgence, particularly in film. Recent additions to the genre are dis... Read More about "The Fairy Tale That Won’t Behave"?: Ageing and Gender in Neil Gaiman’s Stardust and Matthew Vaughn’s Film Adaptation.