Introduction / Monika Elbert and Wendy Ryden
I. Imprisoning genders. Seeing Gothically : Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons / Stephen Arch
Matrimonial abjections : the slave marriage and Charles W. Chesnutt's legal gothic / Wendy Ryden
Iterated horrors : "the monster" and manhood / David Greven
The victim as vampire : Gothic naturalism in the white slave narrative / Donna M. Campbell
II. Horrors of the Civil War and its aftermath. Domestic Gothic in the Civil War fiction of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Ward) and Ambrose Bierce / Monika Elbert
"His face ceased instantly to be a face" : Gothicism in Stephen Crane / Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
Unmasking the lynching subject : Thomas Nelson Page, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the specters of American race / Steve Marsden
III. Wicked money, haunted objects. Dangerous houses in the uncanny tales of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Mary E. Wilkins / Dara Downey
Haunted economies : race, retribution, and money in Pauline Hopkins's Of one blood and W.E.B. Du Bois's The quest of the silver fleece / Christine A. Wooley
Housing crisis and Gothic gambling in Theodore Dreiser's The financier / Patricia Luedecke
IV. Paranormal longings and warnings. The haunted narrators of Clovernook : Alice Cary's village Gothic / Dennis Berthold
The ghosts of medical and domestic violence in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The gates between / Lisa A. Long
The spirit of revolt : Hamlin Garland's paranormal writing / Daniel Mrozowski
V. Spectral landscapes and locations. The specter and the spectator : Rebecca Harding Davis's "The second life" and the naturalist Gothic / Alicia Mischa Renfroe
Enchanting night and nocturnal predations : the art of darkness in Frank Norris's McTeague / Charlotte L. Quinney
Vaster and more terrible : Jack London's Gothic splicing / Kenneth K. Brandt
Naturalistic despair, human struggle, and the Gothic in Wharton's short fiction / Gary Totten.
