The appeal of the unknown / H.P. Lovecraft -- Some defining elements of horror / Stephen King -- The paradox of horror by Noel Carroll -- Five characteristics of postmodern horror / Isabel Cristina Pinedo -- The Gothic novel, 1764-present / Anne Williams -- Elements of the Gothic / Linda Bayer-Berenbaum -- The grotesque in literature / Bernard McElroy -- The Gothic tradition in American literature / Joyce Carol Oates -- Poe and the Gothic / Clark Griffith -- Biographical contexts for Frankenstein / Wendy Lesser -- Death and birth in Frankenstein / Ellen Moers -- Analyzing Dracula's enduring popularity / James B. Twitchell -- Dracula's antifeminism / Bram Dijkstra -- Identity and repression in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Mark Jancovich -- Tensions and anxieties in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Susan J. Wolfson and Barry V. Qualls -- H.P. Lovecraft's life and work / Robert Block -- Stephen King's "art of darkness" / Douglas E. Winter -- The novels of Anne Rice / Lynda Haas and Robert Haas -- Sex, death, and violence in the early works of Clive Barker / S.T. Joshi.