Nineteenth-Century suspense : from Poe to Conan Doyle /

Table of Contents: “…Edgar Allan Poe : tales of dark heat / David Punter -- Capitalising on Poe's detective : the dollars and sense of nineteenth-century detective fiction / Clive Bloom -- Figuring out the signalman : Dickens and the ghost story / Gary Day -- Wilkie Collins in the 1860s : the sensation novel and self-help / Nick Rance -- Sexual politics and political repression in Bram Stoker's Dracula / Anne Cranny-Francis -- The vampire in the looking-glass : reflection and projection in Bram Stoker's Dracula / Philip Martin -- Arthur Conan Doyle's The parasite : the case of the anguished author / Anne Cranny-Francis -- The lost world : Conan Doyle and the suspense of evolution / Howard Davies -- The house that Jack built : Jack the Ripper, legend, and the power of the unknown / Clive Bloom.…”