The New Urban Gothic: Global Gothic in the Age of the Anthropocene

Introduction: The New Urban Gothic - Holly-Gale Millette and Ruth Heholt.- Section One - Urban Gothic Bodies.- Introductory Overview: 'Urban Gothic, A Retrospective' - Julian Wolfreys.- Chapter One: Paulina Palmer, '"I hide a great secret. One that marks me out as grotesque" Freaks, Monstrosity and Secrets in Victorian London'.- Chapter Two: Simon Bacon, 'The Degenerating City: The Gothicized Disabled Body as Nexus of Pollution in the Modern Urban Space as Depicted in The Strain Trilogy'.- Chapter Three: Wymar Strydom, 'Queer sockets: Electricity as Relationality in the New Urban Gothic'.- Chapter Four: Martyn Colebrook, 'The City and the City: Monstrous Urbanities in L.A. Noire and This is the Police'.- Chapter Five: R. M. Francis, 'A Very Queer Black Country'.- Section Two - Urban Gothic Ruin.- Introductory Overview: 'New Directions: Gothic in the Age of the Anthropocene' - Holly-Gale Millette.- Chapter Six: Madelon Hoedt, '"Lord, what a splendid world we ruined" The city and the underground in Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light'.- Chapter Seven: Karl Bell, 'The City of (Dreadful) Light: The New Urban Gothic Mindscape in China Mi憝ille's The Last Days of New Paris'.- Chapter Eight: Tanya Krzywinska, '"Everything is True" A Weird Tale: Urban Gothic meets Urban Myth in Multiplayer Online Game, The Secret World'.- Chapter Nine: Garth Sabo, '"A Weapon in the Cracks" Wasteways Between Worlds in the New Urban Gothic'.- Chapter Ten: Leila Taylor, 'The Rust Belt Ruin and the Gothic Genius Loci of Detroit'.- Section Three - New Global Gothic and Urban Hauntings.- Introductory Overview: 'Global Gothic - Urban Hauntings' - Ruth Heholt.- Chapter Eleven: Gina Wisker, 'Singapore: Skyscrapers and Ghosts, Pontianaks and Pangolins in the Night'.- Chapter Twelve: Anne-Marie Lopez, 'Red Light East: Spaces of Corruption and Female Exploitation in Global Noir'.- Chapter Thirteen: Michael Fuchs, 'Never Accept-Always Question: Colonialism, Capitalism, and Neo-Victorian London in The Order: 1886'.- Chapter Fourteen: Kwasu Tembo, 'Cities of Night and Distant Stars: The Gothico-Surreal Aesthetic in Yoshiaki Kawajiri's Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) and Mamoru Oshii's Angel's Egg (1985)'.- Chapter Fifteen: Molly Slavin, '"In Those Days The Little City of Srinigar Died With the Light" The Ministry of Utmost Happiness as New Urban Gothic'.- Chapter Sixteen: Xavier Alanda Reyes, 'Gothic Barcelona, Barcelona Gothic: Carlos Ruiz Zaf鏮, Marketing and the Legacy of the Francoist Past'