Through an examination of texts from diverse periods and media, Gothic Mash-Ups explores the role that appropriation and intertextuality play in Gothic storytelling. Building on recent scholarship on Gothic remix and adaptation, the contributors demonstrate that the Gothic is a fundamentally hybrid genre.

Gothic Mash-Ups explores the role of intertextuality in Gothic storytelling through the analysis of texts from diverse periods and media. Drawing on recent scholarship on Gothic remix and adaptation, the contributors examine crossover fictions, multi-source film and comic book adaptations, neo-Victorian pastiches, performance magic, monster mashes, and intertextual Gothic works of various kinds. Their chapters investigate many critical issues related to Gothic mash-up, including authorship, originality, intellectual property, fandom, commercialization, and canonicity. Although varied in approach, the chapters all explore how Gothic storytellers make new stories out of older ones, relying on a mix of appropriation and innovation. Covering many examples of mash-up, from nineteenth-century Gothic novels to twenty-first-century video games and interactive fiction, this collection builds from the premise that the Gothic is a fundamentally hybrid genre.

Part I: Film and Television Mash-Ups

1.Do the Monster Mash: Universal’s “Classic Monsters” and the Industrialization of the Gothic Transmedia Franchise

Megen de Bruin-Molé

2.Adapting Monstrous Creation: Lisztomania and Gothic as Gothic Mash-Ups

Kevin M. Flanagan

3.Gothic Exploitation: Transnational Appropriation, Hybridity, and Originality in Continental Horror Cinema, 1957–1983

Xavier Aldana Reyes

4.Queer(ly) Mash(ed) Up: Portraits of Neo-Victorian Others in Penny Dreadful

Sarah E. Maier and Rachel M. Friars

5.Horror, Humor, and Satire in Get Out

Chesya Burke

Part II: Literary Mash-Ups

6.Anne Boleyn, Tudor Vampire

Stephanie Russo

7.The Holmes-Meets-Dracula Mash-Up

L. N. Rosales

8.Orgiastic Authorship in The Picture of Dorian Gray and Teleny

Sandra M. Leonard

9.Rewriting Indigeneity in the Canadian Gothic: Monsters, Mash-Up, and Monkey Beach

Kelly Baron

Part III: More Mash-Ups: Comics, Performance, and Games

10.“The crawling thing within me”: Marvel Comics and the Return of the Gothic Body

Matthew Costello and Mary Beth Tegan

11.Misty, Mash-Ups, and the Marginalized in British Girls’ Comics

Julia Round

12.Mashing Up Magick: Bizarre Magick and the Fuzzy Gothic

Nik Taylor

13.Gothic Gaming, Queer Mash-Ups, and Gone Home

Ewan Kirkland

14.Hypertext of Horrors: A Post-Mortem of Evermore: A Choose Your Own Edgar Allan Poe Adventure

Adam Whybray