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Image of the Hardy Tree, a tree in North London surrounded by several gravestones.

Ecogothic

July 19, 2024 Gothic Nature

By A J Dalton The wind groanedlike something unwilling, risingfrom its peace and rest, angered.–The wood around us creakedas if…

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Posted in: Blog Post Filed under: blog, poem
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Vegetal Violence, or When Plants Commit Murder

August 9, 2021 Gothic Nature

By Dr. Joela Jacobs, University of Arizona Plants seem like the most peaceful creatures on earth. We expect no sudden…

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Posted in: Blog Post Filed under: blog

Spirals of reason:

June 5, 2024 Michael Belcher

The inhuman vitalism of Junji Ito’s Uzumaki By Michael Uhall, Indiana University East Junji Ito’s manga Uzumaki, first published in…

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Posted in: Blog Post Filed under: blog, Japan
Watercolor interpretation of interconnected mushroom Sulphur tuft fungus (Hypholoma fasciculare).

Fungal Colonialism in Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic

March 13, 2024 Gothic Nature

by Autumn Finley, Southwest Baptist University Silvia Moreno-Garcia roots her 2020 novel, Mexican Gothic, in the tropes of early British…

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Posted in: Blog Post Filed under: mushrooms, mycology, North America
The bottom half of Clown in a Cornfield’s book cover showing a menacing smiling clown face made out of corn.

Societal Expectations of Children When Ecophobic Economies Rot:

December 15, 2022 Gothic Nature

A Brief Analysis of “Children of the Corn” and Clown in a Cornfield By Jesse Bairjbair@froidschool.com According to Stephen King’s…

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Posted in: Blog Post Filed under: blog, corn, Ecophobia, North America
Screen apture from the show Yellowjackets showing the "antler queen" in front of a bonfire

Pit Girl, Antler Queen, Hunting Knife:

October 6, 2022 Gothic Nature

Yellowjackets through an Ecogothic Lens By Peter Raagaard A single plot line from the Showtime series Yellowjackets is interesting, partly…

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Posted in: Blog Post Filed under: blog, Forest, North America, Television
A screenshot of a chudail above a forest

From Damsel to Demon Woman:

August 30, 2022 Gothic Nature

A Review of Anvita Dutt’s Bulbbul By M. Anjum Khan, English, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for…

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Detail from a cover of The Beetle

Deformity as the Spectral Element:

August 3, 2022 Gothic Nature

Interstitial Space and the Gothic ‘Monster’ Body in Richard Marsh’s The Beetle: A Mystery By Maneesha Sarda, Claremont Graduate University…

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Posted in: Blog Post Filed under: blog, Books, insects

Steam-Powered Illness and Spectral Remains in Seacole’s Wonderful Adventures

April 5, 2022 Gothic Nature

By Lauren Peterson, University of California, Davis lspeterson@ucdavis.edu In Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (1857), Mary Seacole…

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Posted in: Blog Post Filed under: blog, sea

“This mountain belongs to the Wendigo”:

January 4, 2022 Gothic Nature

The Monstrous Victim in the Wilderness in Horror Video Games By Morgan Pinder, Deakin University Some of the most effective…

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Posted in: Blog Post Filed under: blog, games

Take Care of Trees Against Earthquakes

November 20, 2021 Gothic Nature

Durul and Yağmur Taylan’s The Little Apocalypse (2006) By Fazila Derya Agis, Ph.D. Natural disasters can hinder the future plans…

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Posted in: Blog Post Filed under: blog, Film, tree, Turkey

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Gothic Nature is a new interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed academic journal seeking to explore the latest evolutions of thought in the areas of ecohorror and the ecoGothic. It welcomes articles, reviews, interviews, and original creative pieces from researchers and artists interrogating the darker sides of our relationship to the nonhuman. Get in touch with us at this email.

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