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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Haunting and Nature: An Introduction -- Haunting -- Nature -- Anthropocene/Capitalocene/Chthulucene and the Ecogothic -- Trajectory -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2: Microgothic: Microbial Aesthetics of Haunted Nature -- The Origins of the Microgothic -- "All monstrous, all prodigious things": William Heath's "Monster Soup" -- "[P]rofoundly vicious, treacherous and malignant": Mark Twain's Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes -- The Microbiome and Its Epistemological and Aesthetic Challenges in BioArt -- "And I held it in my hand, the most terrifying of all ills": Anna Dumitriu's The Bacterial Sublime -- Conclusion: The Persistence of the Microgothic -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: Black Mold, White Extinction: I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, The Haunting of Hill House, "Gray Matter," and H. P. Lovecraft's "The Shunned House" -- Black Mold and Post-Death Existence -- White Post-Death -- Climate Crisis, Extinction Fears -- Black Growth, White Extinction -- Black Mold, Black Slavery -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: Vegetomorphism: Exploring the Material Within the Aesthetics of the EcoGothic in Stranger Things and Annihilation -- The Vegetation Belt -- The Monstrous Root -- Human Phytographia and Vegetomorphism -- Indigenous Roots of Chthonic Monsters in Popular Culture -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: An Ecology of Abject Women: Frontier Gothicism and Ecofeminism in Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle -- Introduction: Frontier Realism, Gothic Symbolism, and Ecological Feminism -- Frontier Aesthetics and Ecofeminist Politics in We Have Always Lived in the Castle -- Conclusion: Haunted Natures in the Twenty-First Century -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: Alligators in the Living Room: Terror and Horror in the Capitalocene -- Introduction. |
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(Representing) Capitalocene Violence in the Global North and South -- Gothic and Horror in the Capitalocene: Crawl -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7: Haunted Technonature: Anthropocene Coloniality in Ng Yi-Sheng's Lion City -- Singapore and Anthropocene Hegemony -- Uncanny Technonature -- Singapore, Crisis, and Environmental Management -- Coloniality and the Capitalocene -- Haunting the Anthropocene -- Irrealist Aetiologies -- Decolonizing Emergency -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8: Haunted Nature, Haunted Humans: Intelligent Trees, Gaia, and the Apocalypse Meme -- Intelligent Trees and Haunted Nature -- Apocalyptic Endings and Haunted Humans -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9: The Global Poltergeist: COVID-19 Hauntings -- Works Cited -- Correction To: Alligators in the Living Room: Terror and Horror in the Capitalocene -- Index. |
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