This book argues that travel in Gothic literature offers a unique and transformative perspective on recurring cultural preoccupations with fear, unknown landscapes, environmental change, surveillance, and the foreign.

Lucie Armitt is a professor of Contemporary English Literature at University of Lincoln, UK.

Scott Brewster is a reader in Modern English Literature at University of Lincoln, UK.

Acknowledgements; Introduction - Establishing Gothic Footfall; Travel Versus Tourism; Frissons and Chills; Climates of Fear; 1 Climate and the Elemental Gothic; 2 Stopping Points and (Final Un-)Resting Places; 3 At the Edge: Gothic Extremities in Britain and Ireland; 4 Walking Abroad: Ghosts and Landscape; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index