Children's literature today is dominated by the Gothic mode, and it is in children's Gothic fictions that we find the implications of cultural change most radically questioned and explored. This collection of essays looks at what is happening in the children's Gothic now when tr…
1. 'Do panic. They're coming' : remaking the weird in contemporary children's fiction / Chloe Buckley -- 2. Cuckoo songs : the changeling as hero / Geoffrey Miles -- 3. 'These are troubling, confusing times' : Darren Shan's Cirque du Freak as post-9/11 gothic / Phillip Serrato -…
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- New Directions in Children's Gothic: Debatable Lands -- 1 'Do Panic. They're Coming': Remaking the Weird in Contemporary Children's…
