This textbook would not have been possible without the kind assistance of Kevin Hawkins and John Martin of the Scholarly Communications department at my alma mater the Univerisity of North Texas.

I would also like to thank the scholars who shared the depth of their gothic knowledge with the readers of this textbook, as well as the students from my online British literature class at Tarrant County College Connect who agreed to have their work featured in this volume.

I am thankful to Allegra Davis, my department chair at TCC Connect who encouraged me to innovate in my online classroom which led to the development of this textbook.

Finally, I am grateful to Pressbooks for offering this platform for publishing open textbooks like mine.