Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Gothic in the Anthropocene

Part I. Anthropocene

1. The Anthropocene

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

2. De-extinction: A Gothic Masternarrative for the Anthropocene

Michael Fuchs

3. Lovecraft vs. VanderMeer: Posthuman Horror (and Hope?) in the Zone of Exception

Rune Graulund

4. Monstrous Megalodons of the Anthropocene: Extinction and Adaptation in Prehistoric Shark Fiction, 1974–2018

Jennifer Schell

5. A Violence “Just below the Skin”: Atmospheric Terror and Racial Ecologies from the African Anthropocene

Esthie Hugo

Part II. Plantationocene

6. Horrors of the Horticultural: Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland and the Landscapes of the Anthropocene

Lisa M. Vetere

7. True Detective’s Folk Gothic

Dawn Keetley

8. Beyond the Slaughterhouse: Anthropocene, Animals, and Gothic

Justin D. Edwards

Part III. Capitalocene

9. Gothic in the Capitalocene: World-Ecological Crisis, Decolonial Horror, and the South African Postcolony

Rebecca Duncan

10. Overpopulation: The Human as Inhuman

Timothy Clark

11. Digging Up Dirt: Reading the Anthropocene through German Romanticism

Barry Murnane

12. Got a Light? The Dark Currents of Energy in Twin Peaks: The Return

Timothy Morton and Rune Graulund

Part IV. Chthulucene

13. The Anthropocene Within: Love and Extinction in M. R. Carey’s The Girl with All the Gifts and The Boy on the Bridge

Johan Höglund

14. Rot and Recycle: Gothic Eco-burial

Laura R. Kremmel

15. Erotics and Annihilation: Caitlín R. Kiernan, Queering the Weird, and Challenges to the “Anthropocene”

Sara Wasson

16. Monstrocene

Fred Botting

Contributors

Index