Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. List of illustrations ix
5. Notes on contributors xi
6. Series editor’s preface xiv
7. Acknowledgements xvi
8. Introduction 1
9. 1 Scottish revenants 18
10. 2 Male and female Werthers 36
11. 3 ‘The supposed incipiency of mental disease’ 52
12. 4 ‘The body of a self-destroyer’ 66
13. 5 ‘To be mistress of her own fate’ 81
14. 6 Suicide as justice? 96
15. 7 Gothic influences 110
16. 8 Better not to have been 124
17. 9 Vampire suicide 139
18. 10 Under the dying sun 160
19. 11 ‘I will abandon this body and take to the air’ 176
20. Index 189