Ruth Heholt is a Senior Lecturer in English at Falmouth University, UK

Focussing on written and visual culture that is made in or made about Cornwall, this book argues that Cornwall and the Scilly Isles (known as 'Kernow' in the Cornish language) have a special relationship with Gothic, one that has been overlooked in the literature on regional Gothic.

Introduction; 1. Dark Romance and Du Maurier's Gothic Kernow; 2. Supersensory Gothic Kernow: Magic , Mysticism , and The Esoteric Aesthetics of Emergence; 3. Strange Folk: Folk Horror Cultures , Ritual , and Witching Women; Works Cited; Index.