Cover
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Katarzyna Ancuta and Deimantas Valančiūnas
Part I: History, Politics and Trauma
1: Places Stained by Time: The Gothic Poetics of State Terror in Dhrubajyoti Bora's Kalantor Trilogy
2: Home Is Where the Horror Is: Pakistani Films and Historical Trauma
3: The Past and the Present: A Reading of Bhooter Bhabishyat
Part II: Colonialism, Postcolonialism and Diaspora
4: Search and Subterfuge: The Haunting of the Bengali Bhadralok in Tagore's 'The Hungry Stones'

5: Tracing Terror and the Uncanny in the Gothic Urdu Fiction of Hijab Imtiaz Ali
6: Rebecca in India: The Appropriation of European Gothic in Indian Cinema
7: 'Khamosh! ... The Kaptan is going to speak': Gothic Conventions and Diaspora in Amitav Ghosh'sSea of Poppies
Part III: Spirits, Rituals and Folklore
8: Mysteries in the Air: Modern Bhutan and the Cultural Representations of the Supernatural
9: No Place for Trespassers: Notes Toward a Himalayan Anthropology of Fright
10: Monsters of Every Stripe: Navigating the Werebeasts of Indian Horror Cinema

11: The Tantric as Gothic Villain: Kapalikas and Aghoris in Medieval and Contemporary Indian Literature
Part IV: Gothic Media
12: The Making of a Monster: Evil in Hindi Comics
13: 'But Are They All Horrid?' On the Intermittent Use of the Gothic in Hindi Horror Cinema
14: Detecting Ghosts: Anjaan: Special Crimes Unit as Global Gothic Television
15: 'Bhoot FM' and the Gothic Tradition in Bangladesh
Index
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