Introduction to Russo-Soviet imperialist hauntings -- Maryna Romanets I Art, performance, and film 1 The ghosts of the Soviet past in Natalia Vorozhbyt's Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha -- Oleksandra Wallo 2 Refusing to die: Neo-Gothic political fiction and post-Yugoslav cultural production -- Mirjana Stosic3 Post-Soviet apocalypse in Gothic fiction and Gothic politics -- Dina Khapaeva II Gender, identity, and sexuality 4 Haunted in desolation: Queering the post-Soviet Latvian Gothic -- Karlis Verdins 5 Sophia Andrukhovych's Felix Austria :The postcolonial neo-Gothic and Ukraine's search for itself -- Vitaly Chernetsky 6 Feminism as a Gothic "thoughtcrime": Contextualizing Alma by Izabela Filipiak -- Dorota Filipczak III Spectral geographies, borderland, diaspora 7 The Eastern European monster reclaimed: Finding a voice in a postsocialist, postcolonial world -- Eva R. Hudecova 8 Andriy Lyubka's Carbide: Ukrainian democratic reforms through a dark glass -- Svitlana (Lana) Krys 9 The madwoman on the farm: Witches in Ukrainian Canadian literature -- Lindy Ledohowski IV (Post)communism, totalitarianism, historical trauma 10 Spectrality, necropolitics, and Gothic topography of the city in Nikolai Grozni's Wunderkind -- Roberto Adinolfi and Maryna Romanets 11 Institutional Gothic in the novels of Vladimir Sharov and Evgenii Vodolazkin -- Muireann Maguire 12 The tomb of the reluctant tyrant: Uncanny imaginings of totalitarianism in Ismail Kadare's The Pyramid -- Adriana Raducanu Editors' postscript: Cradle -- Svitlana (Lana) Krysand Maryna Romanets Bibliography Index.