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This book positions the 'California Gothic' as a highly significant regional subgenre which articulates anxieties specific to the historical, cultural and geographical characteristics of the 'Golden State'. California has long been perceived as a utopian space, but it is also haunted by the spectres of European and Anglo-American imperialism, genocide, racial and economic discrimination, natural disaster and aggressive infrastructural and commercial development. Drawing on the work of California historians and cultural commentators, this study explores the ways in which the nightmarish flipside of the 'California Dream' has been depicted within horror and Gothic.

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California Gothic is a brilliant, insightful and richly historical book, one that will jolt you into awareness of the glaring omission (until now) of California from the American Gothic. It offers figures that take their rightful place in the Gothic canon - the 'Fallen Star' of the 'Hollywood Gothic' and the 'California Cult' - and delivers the most innovative intervention into Gothic criticism in years. --Dawn Keetley, Lehigh University

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Bernice M. Murphy, Associate Professor/Lecturer in Popular Literature, Trinity College, Dublin.

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