IntroductionGothic fiction: English terror and carnality -- Through American eyes: Stoker and Shelley in US cinema -- Undermining British cinema: Gothic horror in the 1930s and 1940s and censorship -- Bloody revolution: the worldwide impact of Hammer's cottage industry -- Beyond the aristocracy -- The sexual impulse -- The rivals: on Hammer's coat-tails -- Nights of the demon: the English supernatural story and film -- One-shots and short runs: the black sheep of Gothic cinema -- Fresh blood or exhaustion?: The 1970s to the turn of the century -- The legacy: Gothic influence on television -- The modern age: horror redux.
