This collection opens up new theoretical perspectives on McGrath's corpus, moving conversations around his work decisively forward and seeking to situate McGrath as a key voice in Anglophone letters in our millennial global moment.

Dr. Matt Foley is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Manchester Met. The author of Haunting Modernisms (Palgrave, 2017), he is a member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies, the administrator of the International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prizes, and academic lead for HAUNT Manchester. He works predominantly on modernist literature, the gothic, and literary acoustics.

Dr. Rebecca Duncan teaches literature in English at Stirling University. She is the author of South African Gothic (University of Wales Press, 2018), a member of Stirling's International Centre for Gothic Studies, and - from 2020 - the recipient of a Crafoord Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at Linnaeus University. She researches in postcolonial- and world-literature, speculative fiction and the gothic.

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Foreword

Sue Zlosnik

Introduction: McGrath in the World: Madness, Gothic, and Transnational Consciousness

Rebecca Duncan and Matt Foley

Section I: Transnational McGrath

Chapter One: Writing and Reading the Spider: McGrath's Web

David Punter

Chapter Two: Martha Peake and the Madness of "Free Trade"

Evert Jan van Leeuwen

Chapter Three: "A cell without a nucleus is a ruin:" Vampiric Creations of the Unhealthy Disabled in Patrick McGrath's "Blood Disease"

Alan Gregory

Chapter Four: Revisiting the Spanish Civil War: An Interview with Patrick McGrath

Xavier Aldana Reyes

Section II: Theorizing McGrath

Chapter Five: Madness, Tragedy, and the Implied Reader of Patrick McGrath's Spider

Benjamin E. Noad

Chapter Six: The Terrors of the Self: The Manipulation of Identity Mythologies in Patrick McGrath's Novels

Daniel Southward

Chapter Seven: Patrick McGrath and Passion: The Gothic Modernism of Asylum and beyond

Matt Foley and Rebecca Duncan

Section III: Millennial McGrath

Chapter Eight: The Price of Suffering and the Value of Remembering: Patrick McGrath's Trauma

Michela Vanon Alliata

Chapter Nine: "You have to be a warrior to live here:" PTSD as a collective socio-political condition in Patrick McGrath's writing

Dana Alex

Chapter Ten: The Liar, the Bitch, and the Wardrobe: Resisting Political Terror, Anti-Semitism, and Revenants in Patrick McGrath's The Wardrobe Mistress

Danel Olson

Afterword

Patrick McGrath