Titlebook: Gothic Animals; Uncanny Otherness an Ruth Heholt,Melissa Edmundson Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusi

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Devouring the Animal Within: Uncanny Otherness in Richard Adams’s explores how Adams’s talking animal story harnesses what Gamer calls the ‘protean’ propensities of the Gothic to an animal rights agenda. Höing shows that . deconstructs the Gothic animal as a mere screen to project human anxieties on, while the novel also utilises Gothic motifs to foreground the re

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Imagining the Becoming-Unextinct of Megalodon: Spectral Animals, Digital Resurrection, and the Vanistes the ways in which these two faux documentaries exemplify an ontological shift in the relationship between human and non-human animals, as non-human animals are replaced by their digital duplicates. In the faux documentaries, the return of a prehistoric animal in digital form seems to offer hope

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Uncanny Snails: Patricia Highsmith and the Allure of the GastropodsHighsmith presents these creatures in her work, both novel and short stories, it reveals how these creatures can be utilised to reveal both benign and malign tendencies when appropriated by human beings. It argues that, as abject objects, snails can be both an anchoring presence in a dangerous unive

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‘I Have Flyophobia’: Jane Rice’s ‘The Idol of the Flies’ and Evil as Unwanted Houseguesthapter argues that Rice’s story typifies the turn to the Domestic Gothic in twentieth-century US Gothic fiction, and the story satirises some of these emerging conventions. Reading the fly as psychological and spiritual nuisance, Knott finds the fly enables a discussion of the ecological balance of

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‘Encircled by Minute, Evilly-Intentioned Airplanes’: The Uncanny Biopolitics of Robotic Beesd Culture: Technogothics. Routledge, New York, pp. 17–34, 2015), which in our digital age accentuates the phenomenon of haunting, as well as channels the Anthropocene anxieties, as it questions politics between humans, other animals, and the environment. The uncanniness of the robotic bee, from Erns

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A Bark and Stormy Night: Ann Radcliffe’s Animals Radcliffe, this chapter discusses four early Gothic novels: . (1790); . (1791); . (1795); . (1797). Within these narratives, tensions of solitude and wilderness are broken by dogs and Radcliffe’s protagonists experience the comforting and protective presence of companion animals, through which char