The California Gothic in Fiction and Film

Focuses on the California Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Analyses the key historical events and cultural and social factors which have shaped Californian identity and found expression in horror and Gothic narrativesConsiders contributors to the California Gothic canon, such as: Nathanael West, Clark Ashton Smith, Shirley Jackson, Fritz Leiber, Joan Didion, Richard Matheson and Dave EggersReconsiders key films in relation to their previously overlooked ‘California Gothic’ sign