Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Introduction: The American Imperial Gothic; 2 Imperial Frontier Gothic; 3 The Gothic of Benevolent Assimilation; 4 Cold War Horror; 5 Post-Vietnam Gothic; 6 11 September and the Gothic War on Terror; 7 Afghanistan, Iraq and the New Frontiers of the Imperial Gothic; 8 Militarising the Virtual Gothic; 9 Tales of Torture and Invasion; 10 The Imperial Gothic of the Post-Apocalypse; 11 Conclusion; Bibliography