Queer Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion
features sixteen essays that interrogate queer theory’s intersections with the Gothic. By re-visiting the usefulness of the term ‘queer’ and pushing queer theoretical frameworks into new territory, this volume explores the ways that Gothic and queer work alongside each other: one as a marginalised genre and the other as a marginalised identity. Considering both major and lesser-known Gothic works, and ranging from the canonical (poetry and fiction) to the popular (film, video games, music, and visual and performance art), it offers queer and trans perspectives on a wide selection of Gothic modes, genres and texts from fiction such as Hugh Walpole’s
The Castle of Otranto
to Jeanette Winterson’s
The Daylight Gate
, films from
Nosferatu
to
The Cured
and TV shows including
In the Flesh
and
Pose
.