Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Notes on Transliteration Introduction: (Re-)Orienting the Gothic - Karen Grumberg Part I. Tracing the Gothic in Middle Eastern Literatures 1.Maqamat: Towards the Middle Eastern Gothic of the War on Terror - Jacob Berman 2.The Iranian Gothic and its Parts - Michael Beard Part II. Spectralised Modernities 3.Gothicising the Ottoman Past and Building Modern Turkey in Turkish Novels of the 1920s - Tugçe Biçakçi Syed 4.Revival and Decay: On the Politics of Gothic Ambivalences in Modern Hebrew Literature - Roni Masel 5.Efendi Gothic: A Forgotten Prehistory of the Arabic Novel - Alexandra Shraytekh (Chreiteh) 6.

The Call of Kimya: Re-Writing Sufi Ghosts in Ahmet Ümit's The Dervish Gate - Adriana Raducanu Part III. Violence, Catastrophe, Trauma: Gothic Literalised 7.Saharan Gothic: Desert Necrofiction in Maghrebi and Middle Eastern Desert Literature - Brahim El Guabli 8.'Well-Founded Fear': Dead Narrators, Displaced Authors in Iraqi Gothic Fiction - Federico Pozzoli.