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''Exotic Gothic'' is an anthology series of short fiction and novel excerpts in the gothic, horror and fantasy genres, edited by Danel Olson, a professor of English at Lone Star College in Texas. Olson writes on Gothic novels〔 and Horror film (''The Exorcist, The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth,'' ''The Shining''), and edited the reference guide ''21st Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000''. By design, the stories take place outside the traditional gothic setting of the United Kingdom. ==The series== ''Exotic Gothic: Forbidden Tales from Our Gothic World'' (published Oct. 2007 by Ash-Tree Press, hardcover and trade ppk., cover photography from Anne Brigman-courtesy Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 306pp.)(2007), "showcases twenty-three stories (eight original to the anthology) that take place around the world." The second volume (''Exotic Gothic 2: New Tales of Taboo'') was a finalist for the 2008 Shirley Jackson Award, and the third (''Exotic Gothic 3: Strange Visitations'') was a finalist for the 2009 (Shirley Jackson Award )〔http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/sja_2009_winners.php 2009 Shirley Jackson Award〕 and 2010 (World Fantasy Award ),〔http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/2010.html World Fantasy Award〕 and both had stories reprinted in the following year's round of "Best Of" collections. According to the ''Houston Chronicle'' newspaper, "The collection includes contemporary ghost, werewolf, vampire, and beastly creature stories; weird and paranormal tales; and neo-Gothic romances....(from ) a sabbatical last fall (), after his own Gothic research led him to a walking tour of Transylvania and facing a gypsy woman's curse..." One strangeness of the book remarked on was how likable some of its villains were, prompting this question to Australian contributor Terry Dowling whose new fiction is in each of the ''Exotic Gothic'' tables of contents below: What of the "partially admirable people we meet () ... who also happen to be poisoners, amateur lobotomists, or necrophiliacs?" What of "character() with an ocean of darkness within who () functional, even polite ... elegant monsters?"〔 Dowling's response was that "goodness and evil, ugliness and beauty not only sit side by side but overlap."〔 The 2003 Bram Stoker Award-finalist webzine ''Horror World''〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.horror.org/stokerwinnom.htm#2003 )〕 concludes that ''Exotic Gothic'' "raises the question as to 'How does the contemporary global Gothic enlarge, transcend, scramble, subvert, or mock the genre?' To this end, Olson has subdivided the Anthology into Sections for Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. Each Section then has various stories that are set within or relate to the particular geographic area.... The book does exactly what it sets out to do, and provides a wealth of contemporary stories from around the world, either straightforwardly in the Gothic milieu, or which utilize such as a point of origin.... An excellent, informative overview of the genre, both in terms of where it has been, and where it is now going." Inside the first volume, the editor "celebrates the loosening of geographic bonds, an emancipation of the genre." Dustjacket Summary: "In the old gothic, nothing scared so much as a touch of the cold and the foreign in the midst of the familiar, for it begged the question, ‘What has become of the world we knew?’ The twenty-three stories in ''Exotic Gothic'' ask this question differently: ‘What has become of the world we know?’ These stories are concerned with the here and now, and demonstrate how today’s international Gothicists are reimagining the traditional setting, mood, and characters of their British, German and French predecessors. You will not be safe here as you roam the world and travel from Tanzania to Zanzibar, Mali, Sumatra, Japan, Iraq, Russia, Australia, England, Scotland, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, America, and Canada." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Exotic Gothic」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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