Jeremy Poynting on Caribbean Gothic

We've got a brand new essay over in our Discover section, where Jeremy Poynting writes on the topic of "Caribbean Gothic".

Nowhere has longer and deeper connections to the Gothic than the Caribbean. So, the current revisiting of the Gothic in Caribbean writing is more than appropriate. The Caribbean collected and mixed together the folk terrors of the Amerindian, European, African and Indian imaginations and the fiction and poetry discussed below features amongst others, such creatures of threat as the lagahoo, massacouraman, duppies, douens, doppelgangers, la jablesse/diablesse, cannibals and baccoo...

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