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Dr Kevin Corstorphine's Outputs (20)

'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.

Gothic Horror Fiction (2023)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K. (2023). Gothic Horror Fiction. In B. Santin (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Novel and Politics (205-218). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009030274.017

The horror novel appears in the late twentieth century as a significant genre of popular fiction. Growing out of older traditions of the European Gothic and weird fiction, and their trajectory through American literature, the horror novel has produce... Read More about Gothic Horror Fiction.

(In)Human Entity: A Study of the ‘Living’ Doll in Contemporary Horror (2024)
Thesis
Mills, S. (2023). (In)Human Entity: A Study of the ‘Living’ Doll in Contemporary Horror. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4963735

This thesis, as the first full length study of dolls and horror, provides an extensive examination of the ‘living’ doll figure in contemporary horror narratives. Dolls have been a significant feature of the horror genre for decades and their prevalen... Read More about (In)Human Entity: A Study of the ‘Living’ Doll in Contemporary Horror.

The Old Indian Burial Ground in Fiction and Film (2023)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K. (2024). The Old Indian Burial Ground in Fiction and Film. In E. Parisot, D. McAllister, & X. Aldana Reyes (Eds.), Graveyard Gothic. Manchester University Press

Indian burial grounds are a staple of American popular culture, and through their representation in fiction and film reach a global audience. In such narratives, ‘old Indian burial grounds’ are built over with houses, hotels, and other such dwellings... Read More about The Old Indian Burial Ground in Fiction and Film.

US Imperial Gothic (2023)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K. (2023). US Imperial Gothic. In R. Duncan (Ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic. Edinburgh University Press

Horror Theory Now : Thinking About Horror (2023)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K. (2023). Horror Theory Now : Thinking About Horror. In S. Bacon (Ed.), Evolution of Horror in the 21st Century (13-26). Rowman & Littlefield

The Vanishing South: Race and the Ecogothic in Ambrose Bierce and Charles Chesnutt (2022)
Journal Article
Corstorphine, K. (in press). The Vanishing South: Race and the Ecogothic in Ambrose Bierce and Charles Chesnutt. Studies in American Fiction, 49( Special Issue on the Ecogothic),

Ambrose Bierce’s short stories present Gothic visions of the colonial encounter with the American wilderness in a way that complicates notions of land ownership and the relationship of humans to the environment. In ‘The Damned Thing’ (1893), a seemin... Read More about The Vanishing South: Race and the Ecogothic in Ambrose Bierce and Charles Chesnutt.

Wyrd Magic: an exploration of personal grief through narrative (2022)
Thesis
Cargill, A. Wyrd Magic: an exploration of personal grief through narrative. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4240501

The thesis consists of the novel Wyrd Magic and an exegesis. Together, they chart my creative and critical PhD journey where I explore the form of the novel as a mode through which to articulate my understanding of grief. My intent was to deve... Read More about Wyrd Magic: an exploration of personal grief through narrative.

Weird Fiction in the Twentieth-Century Gothic (2021)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K. (in press). Weird Fiction in the Twentieth-Century Gothic. In S. Ni Fhlainn, & B. M. Murphy (Eds.), Twentieth-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Edinburgh University Press

This chapter is a survey of the evolution of weird fiction and how it relates to the Gothic in the twentieth century. It argues for an understanding of the mode in terms of its blending of genres and resistance to categorisation, emphasising publicat... Read More about Weird Fiction in the Twentieth-Century Gothic.

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). 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.

‘Don’t be a Zombie’: Deep Ecology and Zombie Misanthropy (2019)
Journal Article
Corstorphine, K. (2019). ‘Don’t be a Zombie’: Deep Ecology and Zombie Misanthropy. Gothic nature journal, 54-77

This article examines the waysin which the Gothic imagination has been used to convey the message of environmentalism, looking specifically at attempts to curb population growth, such as the video ‘Zombie Overpopulation’, produced by Population Matte... Read More about ‘Don’t be a Zombie’: Deep Ecology and Zombie Misanthropy.

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.

The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature (2018)
Book
Corstorphine, K., & Kremmel, L. (Eds.). (2018). The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97406-4

This handbook examines the use of horror in storytelling, from oral traditions through folklore and fairy tales to contemporary horror fiction. Divided into sections that explore the origins and evolution of horror fiction, the recurrent themes that... Read More about The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature.

The horror genre and aspects of Native American Indian literature (2018)
Book Chapter
Porter, J. (2018). The horror genre and aspects of Native American Indian literature. In K. Corstorphine, & L. Kremmel (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature (45-60). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97406-4_4

Porter offers a fascinating exploration of the limitations of genre in relation to certain horror literature produced by authors who identify as American Indian. She explores the horror genre as a context within which the Native dispossession foundat... Read More about The horror genre and aspects of Native American Indian literature.

Cartoons vs. manga movies : a brief history of anime in the UK (2017)
Journal Article
Hernández-Pérez, M., Corstorphine, K., & Stephens, D. (2017). Cartoons vs. manga movies : a brief history of anime in the UK. Mutual Images, 2(Winter), 5-43. https://doi.org/10.32926/2017.2.HER.carto

This paper has as main objective to explore, adopting a historical and critical perspective, the release of film and anime TV in UK. This would be a first step towards the studio of the peculiar implementation of manganime Culture in Britain. Compare... Read More about Cartoons vs. manga movies : a brief history of anime in the UK.

(Japanese?) Cartoons and Manga Movies: The hard rise of Anime in UK market and society (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Manuel, H.-P., Corstorphine, K., & Darren, S. (2015, June). (Japanese?) Cartoons and Manga Movies: The hard rise of Anime in UK market and society. Paper presented at MUTUAL IMAGES. 3rd International Workshop: “Japanese pop cultures in Europe today: economic challenges, mediated notions, future opportunities”

This paper has as main objective to explore, adopting a historical and critical perspective, the release of film and anime TV in UK. This would be a first step towards the studio of the peculiar implementation of manganime Culture in Britain.

Comp... Read More about (Japanese?) Cartoons and Manga Movies: The hard rise of Anime in UK market and society.

'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.'.