List of Contents ¿ I. The Gothic Mystique: Matriarchy, Patriarchy, and the (Fe)Male Condition Agnieszka ¿owczanin "A Romance Fit for the Taste of our Era": Anna Mostowska and the first Polish Gothic stories. Adriana Raducanu Under the Sign of Gothic: The Goddess K¿l¿ from Mah¿bh¿rata to Marguerite Yourcenar¿s ¿Kali Beheaded¿ Dorota Filipczak The Gothic Excess in "The Albanian Virgin" by Alice Munro Read Against The Broken April by Ismail Kadare Marta Goszczy¿ska "A Play of Fear and Laughter": Gothic Excesses in A.S. Byatt¿s Possession ¿ II. Look Now: Gothic in Film Dorota Babilas Monstrosity and Suffering in the Roles of Lon Chaney Raluca Andreescu A Portrait of the Artist as a Vampire in Jim Jarmusch¿s Only Lovers Left Alive ¿ III. Little Ones Love to Be Afraid Sandra Mills Grotesque Creations: Brutality, Terror and the Puppet Pinocchio Aleskandra Mochocka Gothic, Commodities, and Culture: the Monster High Franchise and the Processes of Incorporation and Excorporation IV. Gothic Spaces Krzysztof Majer Disturbing "the sleep of substance": Nabokov¿s and Millhauser¿s Haunted Museums Bridget Marshall Fright Factories: Nineteenth-Century Industrial Gothic Joanna Kokot A Criminal Intrigue in a Gothic Scenery: Castle Skull by John Dickson Carr ¿ V.

Gothic Monstrosities Stephen Oravec Monstrous Educators: The Wendol of Michael Crichton¿s Eaters of the Dead Zofia Kolbuszewska H. P. Lovecraft, Horrific Creation, and Post-humanism ¿ VI. Transgressing Boundaries and Crossing Borders Eva ¿oupkov¿LI> Gothic Elements in the Novel Val¿e a t¿den div¿ by V¿zslav Nezval Krzysztof Kosecki Life, Politics, Science, and Art: Poe¿s "Raven" and Its Re-interpretations by Sastre, Witkiewicz, and Pleijel Katarzyna Ma¿ecka Stranger than Fiction: Gothic Themes in Bereavement Memoirs of Spousal Loss.