Gothic effigy brings together for the first time the multifarious visual motifs and media associated with Gothic, many of which have never received serious study before. This guide is the most comprehensive work in its field, a study aid that draws links between a considerable array of Gothic visual works and artifacts, from the work of Salvator Rosa and the first illustrations of Gothic Blue Books to the latest Gothic painters and graphic artists. Currently popular areas such as Gothic fashion, gaming, T.V. and film are considered, as well as the ghostly images of magic lantern shows. This groundbreaking study will serve as an invaluable reference and research book. In its wide range and closely detailed descriptions, it will be very attractive for students, academics, collectors, fans of popular Gothic culture and general readers.

David Annwn Jones is Lecturer in English at the Open University

IntroductionChapter 11.1 Gothic and Gothic Revival architecture1.2 Graveyards, crypts and mausolea1.3 Ruins1.4 Follies and gardens1.5 Décor, domestic furniture and uncanny household items1.6 Theatre and stage1.7 Masquerade, Halloween and Gothic as pageant and immersive spectacle1.8 Dance and mimeChapter 22.1 Early painting to the eighteenth century2.2 Painting: Goya to Giger and after2.3 Engravings: icons of ancestral fear2.4 The macabre graphic art of the Blue books and Penny Dreadfuls2.5 Revivified and spectral portraits:Otrantos yawning picture to M.R. JamessThe Mezzotint2.6 Uncanny signs and postersChapter 33.1 Sculptors and statuary3.2 Wax simulacra3.3 Dolls, effigies, mommets and poppets3.4 Moving statues and automata3.5 Tableaux vivants and poses plastiques3.6 Cabinets of curiosity3.7 Postmodern Gothic sculptures and figurines3.8 TaxidermyChapter 44.1 Ghost machines: the Satanic Eidophusikon and peepshows4.2 Phantasmagoria and magic lanterns: E-A Roberstons lantern-of-fear4.3 Stereoscope Diableries4.4 Peppers Ghost and the domestic lantern horror show4.5 Eerie sight machines, zoetropes and the whirling witches of PlateausPhenakistoscope4.6 Gothic Kinetoscopes to early American horror film4.7Gothic films, from silents toelectronic movie making4.8 Gothic TVChapter 55.1 Gothic comics, graphic novels and icons5.2 Silhouettes, Ombres Chinoises and shadowgraphs5.3 Damnable lithographs: Louis Boulangers Satanic La Ronde de Sabbatand the dark barbarism of the lapidary art5.4 Dressed, adorned and altered prints and books5.5 Leporellos, moving books and monstrous concertina texts5.6 Gothic calendarsChapter 66.1 The dark hold of Daguerreotypes and early photography6.2 Mourning and spirit photographs6.3 Gothic collage, photocollage and shadow boxes6.4 Haunts, great houses, cadavers and ossuaries: the photography of Simon Marsden and Paul Koudounaris6.5 Modern photographyChapter 77.1Gothic scripts, fonts, ciphers and calligraphy7.2 A dark chaos of marbled papers7.3 Gothic labelling, packaging and ads7.4 Graffiti, curses, sigils and heraldry7.5 Tapestries and embroidery7.6 Book covers and magazine covers7.7 Record and CD cover artChapter 88.1 Gothic costume, ancient and modern8.2 Gothic jewellery8.3 Gothic toys through Gothic glass8.4 Masks, weapons, and athames8.5 Playing cards and the TarotChapter 99.1 New media: the art of Gothic gaming and horror apps9.2 Ghost trains9.3 Horror environments and itineraries, escape rooms, Halloween hayrides and tourist attractions9.4 Gothic installations9.5Performance art, body art, tattoos and facepaint Index