"Financial Gothic is a bold disinterment of the monstrosity that has long lain at the core of imaginative responses to money and markets in American culture. In Amy Bride’s incisive analysis, both American Gothic and American capitalism are revealed to be possessed by phantoms still stranger and more potent than we knew."

Paul Crosthwaite, professor of modern and contemporary literature, University of Edinburgh

"Financial Gothic persuasively highlights the immense and often monstrous role that anxieties related to finance and the financial markets have played in shaping the popular American Gothic, between the early twentieth century and the present day."

Bernice Murphy, associate professor and lecturer in popular literature, Trinity College Dublin

"This book is a credit to the Gothic’s aptness for denouncing social injustice. Taking stock of the mode’s investment in decrying capitalism’s structural inequalities, Bride argues for a broader consideration of the evolution of financial discourse in the American context as essentially monstrous. When money talks, the Gothic claps back." 

Xavier Aldana Reyes, Manchester Metropolitan University

"Financial Gothic provides a compelling analysis of how twentieth-century gothic literature is haunted by the twinned histories of finance and slavery. The shadow world of finance is often spectral, and Amy Bride demonstrates how American literature grapples with the problem of 'zombie capitalism.'"

Peter Knight, professor of American studies, University of Manchester