books.google.com - Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. Here fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto,...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Cambridge_Companion_to_Gothic_Fictio.html?id=dBk-mKcKGvMC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction