Death and contemporary gothic studies

The idea of ‘death’ offers a rich vein of material for Gothic scholars to mine. Of all the eerie and foreboding experiences in this world, it is perhaps the thought of Death that most simultaneously attracts and repels. For death is the great inevitability for us all and yet none of us knows, or can know, it fully. This issue of Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies is the result of discussions between its editors and the journal’s founding editor, Dr. Lorna Piatti- Farnell, at the inaugural Australasian Death Studies Network conference in Noosa, Australia, in 2015