Contemporary Women's Gothic Fiction : Carnival, Hauntings and Vampire Kisses (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)

1.Introduction.- 2.Angela Carter: Living in Gothic Times.- 3.Margaret Atwood and Canadian Women's Gothic: Spite, Lies, Split Selves and Self Deception.- 4.Cultural Haunting: Toni Morrison and Tananarive Due.- 5.Postcolonial and Cultural Haunting Revenants: Letting the 'Right' Ones In.- 6.Testing the Fabric of Bluebeard's Castle: Postcolonial Reconfigurations, Demythologizing, Re-Mythologizing and Shape-shifting.- 7.Vampire Bites.- 8.Vampire Kisses.- 9.Ghostings and Hauntings: Splintering the Fabric of Domestic Gothic with Horror Houses, Stately Homes, Ghosts Behind Walls, Playroom Deaths, Women in Black, Little Strangers.- 10.Reviving, Revisiting and Mainstreaming Gothic