Introduction: A Study in Scarlet -- Typewriter Blood -- Inhuman Inscriptions in Contemporary Horror: Stephen King's The Shining and Kathe Koja's Fiction -- At the Heart of Darkness: Trauma and Women -- The Real of Cyberia: Dark Web, Red Rooms and Internet Gothic -- Inhuman Materiality in Edgar Allan Poe's Stories -- Gothic Inhumanism -- Conclusion: De Man's Red Room
Summary
"This book examines the manifestations of materiality across different gothic media to show the inhuman at the heart of literature, film and contemporary media, outlining a philosophy of horror that deals with the horror of the nonhuman, the machine and the nonorganic"-- Provided by publisher
