Summary
Kevin Corstorphine lectures in American literature, with a particular interest in horror and Gothic fiction, both literary and popular.
His research interests are mainly centred around representations of space and place, including haunted houses, tainted and abject spaces, thresholds and forbidden rooms.
He has most recently edited a major handbook to horror literature throughout history, and has published on many authors of the weird and macabre such as Bram Stoker, Ambrose Bierce, H P Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, and Clive Barker.