Welcome to a world of insanity, wicked monks, sublime landscapes, romantic heroines, golems, vampires, and wanderers. Essays on the relationship between fantasy fiction and the Gothic, including the Gothic classics Bram Stoker's Dracula, Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer, Ann Radcliffe's The Italian, and fantasy classics J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea books, and Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy.