This iconoclastic book challenges and changes accepted opinions about the Gothic novel, and will introduce the British and American Reader to works hitherto unknown to them, but rivals in quality to the works of writers like Radcliffe, Lewis and Stoker.

Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches is a comprehensive study of the teenage witch as a cultural trope. The book explores the changing representation of adolescent witches in film, literature and other media from the 1940s to the present.

This collection examines Gothic fiction written by female authors in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Analysing works by lesser known authors within a historical context, the collection offers a fresh perspective on women writers and their contributions to Gothic literature.