This is the first book-length study to systematically and theoretically analyse the use and
representation of individual body parts in Gothic fiction. Moving between filmic and literary
texts and across the body¿from the brain hair and teeth to hands skin and the stomach¿this
book engages in unique readings by foregrounding a diversity of global representations.
Building on scholarly work on the ¿Gothic body¿ and ¿body horror¿ Gothic Dissections in Film
and Literature dissects the individual features that comprise the physical human corporeal form
in its different functions. This very original and accessible study which will appeal to a
broad range of readers interested in the Gothic centralises the use (and abuse) of limbs
organs bones and appendages. It presents a set of unique global examinations from Brazil
France and South Korea to name a few that address the materiality of the Gothic body in depth
in texts ranging from the nineteenth century to the present from Nikolai Gogol Edgar Allan
Poe Roald Dahl and Chuck Palahniuk to David Cronenberg Freddy Krueger and The Greasy
Strangler.
