Megan Abbott has authored twelve novels, co-created a TV series, and is a respected critical scholar on crime fiction and domestic noir. This is the first book-length study of her major novels. Girl Detectives and Gothic Femininity traces the development of Abbott's evolving use of genre tropes from crime fiction to horror and the gothic in order to elucidate the way her work exposes and dismantles sexist and misogynistic cultural narratives constraining the lives of women and gir...

Neil Gaiman is the imaginative wizard behind the best-selling novels American Gods (soon to be an HBO series) and The Anansi Boys, the graphic series The Sandman, and popular children’s books like Coraline and The Graveyard Book.Neil Gaiman and Philosophy looks at Gaiman’s work through a philosophical lens. How does fantasy interact with reality and what can each tell us about the other? Do we each have other selves who embody di...