The Gothic in Children's Literature

Abstract

Introduction 1. The Haunted Nursery: 1764-1830 2. Cyberspace and the Gothic Novel 3. Frightening and Funny: Humor in Children's Gothic Fiction 4. Between Horror, Humor, and Hope: Neil Gaiman and the Psychic Work of the Gothic 5. On the Gothic Beach: A New Zealand Reading of House and Landscape in Margaret Mahy's 'The Tricksters' 6. High Winds and Broken Bridges: The Gothic and the West Indies in Twentieth Century British Fiction for Children 7. The Scary Tale Looks for a Family: Gary Crew's 'Gothic Hospital' and Sonya Hartnett's 'The Devil Latch' 8. Haunting the Borders of Sword and Sorcery: Garth Nix's 'The Seventh Tower' 9. Uncanny Ghosts, Canny Children 10. Hermione in the Bathroom: Menarche, the Grotesque, and Female Development in 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' 11. Fantastic Books: The Gothic Architecture of Children's Books 12. The Night Side of Nature: Gothic Spaces, Fearful Times

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