Haunted Europe : continental connections in English language gothic writing film and new media Introduction Michael Newton and Evert Jan van Leeuwen Seeing Ghosts: The Dark Side of the Enlightenment Robert Miles Such Strains as Speak No Mortal Means : Melusine Voices in Radcliffes The Mysteries of Udolpho and Landons The Fairy of the Fountains Michelle OConnell Slavery as a National Crime: Defining Britishness in Encounters with the Flying Dutchman Agnes Andeweg Strange Exhibitions: M. R. James Europe and the Phantom Museum Scott Brewster Haunted Hotels and Murder Inns: Travelers Tales from Europe and the Gothic Short Story from the 1820s to the 1940s Michael Newton Daphne Du Maurier: Sex and Death the Italian Way Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik Dennis Wheatleys Satanic Continent Evert Jan van Leeuwen Robert Aickman and the English Abroad Nick Freeman Look into the Dark : A Ghost Story for Christmas on the Continent: An Interview with Leslie Megahey director of Schalcken the Painter Michael Newton A Tale of Two Carmillas: The Representation of Styria in Le Fanus Carmilla and its Web Series Adaptation Rahel Sixta Schmitz Civilization vs. The Barbarian Turk : Imperial Gothic and Western Self definition in Dracula Narratives from Fin de Siècle to the Post 9 11 World Tugçe Biçakçi Syed Acephalous Times: The Severed Head in Contemporary Fiction and Film Roger Luckhurst.