| Contents |
The haunted nursery: 1764-1830 / Dale Townshend -- Cyberfiction and the gothic novel / Nadia Crandall -- Frightening and funny : humor in children's gothic fiction / Julie Cross -- Between horror, humor, and hope : Neil Gaiman and the psychic work of the gothic / Karen Coats -- On the gothic beach : a New Zealand reading of house and landscape in Margaret Mahy's The tricksters / Rose Lovell-Smith -- High winds and broken bridges : the gothic and the West Indies in twentieth-century British children's literature / Karen Sands-O'Connor -- The scary tale looks for a family : Gary Crew's Gothic hospital and Sonya Hartnett's The devil latch / Anna Smith -- Haunting the borders of sword and sorcery : Garth Nix's The seventh tower / Alice Mills -- Uncanny hauntings, canny children / Anna Jackson -- Hermione in the bathroom : the gothic, menarche, and female development in the Harry Potter series / June Cummins -- Making nightmares into new fairytales : goth comics as children's literature / Laurie N. Taylor -- Fantastic books : the gothic architecture of children's books / Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario -- The night side of nature : gothic spaces, fearful times / Roderick McGillis. |
