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Acknowledgements

I WOULD LIKE to offer tremendous gratitude to Dr Sandra Tomc, whose patience, insightful advice, good humour and superb mentorship were invaluable in navigating the murky and pitfall-riddled terrain of weird scholarship. Her guidance and unflagging cheerfulness helped sustain this project and its author through periods of puzzlement and doubt that sometimes seemed equal to the horrors of an unknowable cosmos. Dr Adam Frank and Dr Suzy Anger were similarly indispensable, asking perceptive and intellectually enriching questions no less consciousness- expanding than the musings of the German idealists or speculative realists.

I would also like to thank a number of colleagues in the English Department at UBC whose intellectual (and personal) generosity have profoundly shaped my scholarship and, indeed, my life: Dr Tiffany Potter, Dr Siân Echard, Dr Stephen Guy-Bray, Dr Elizabeth Hodgson and Dr Margery Fee. Special thanks also to my colleagues in the International Gothic Association for their friendship, expertise and encouragement, especially Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes, Dr Chloé Germaine Buckley and Dr Neil Kirk.

In addition, I offer enormous thanks to my parents, David and Shaaron Newell, whose dauntless encouragement led me not only into graduate studies but to English literature in the first place, as well as to my brothers, Benjamin and Simon Newell. Finally, special and inestimable thanks are owed to my wife, Allison Sullivan, who has put up with mountains of books and endless talk of tentacular monsters, and whose wit, wisdom and warmth are truly and continuously astonishing. Without her support, love and confidence, this book would not exist.