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Books

Cornish Gothic (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2023)

Monograph based upon my PhD research. The first monograph to define a Cornish Gothic tradition in the nineteenth century.

with Emily Alder and Jimmy Packham, Our Haunted Shores: Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles (London: British Library, 2022)

Anthology of coastal tales from the British isles as part of the Tales of the Weird series.

Cornish Horrors: Tales from the Land’s End (London: British Library, 2021) [Won the Holyer an Gof Publisher’s Award for General Fiction, Gorsedh Kernow, 2022]

Anthology of Cornish Gothic tales from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, uncovering lost gems from the British Library archives as part of the Tales of the Weird series.

Articles

 ‘“A delightful place to be buried in”: Representations of Cornwall in Thomas Hardy’s A Pair of Blue Eyes’, Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature (2021), pp. 43-57

with Robert Lloyd and Eric Savoy, 'Book Forum: Rethinking Darryl Hattenhauer’s Shirley Jackson’s American Gothic', Women's Studies (2020), pp. 901-908

‘Surfacing: Cornish Women Rising from the Depths’, Question: Essays and Art from the Humanities, 1.1 (2017), pp. 36-45
'Gothic Landscapes and Seascapes: Dark Regions in Wilkie Collins's The Dead Secret', Studies in Gothic Fiction, 5.2 (2016), pp. 21-30
‘The Aesthetics of the Auditory: Sound and Silence in the Novels of Ann Radcliffe’, Horror Studies, 7.2 (2016), pp. 189-204

Chapters

'The Remixing (and Ransacking) of Hill House: Surveying the Spectral Presence of Shirley Jackson in Contemporary Gothic Fiction', The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Simon Bacon (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2023)

‘Ann Radcliffe’s Influences and Legacies’, The Palgrave Handbook of Gothic Origins, ed. Clive Bloom (London: Palgrave, 2022), pp. 121-124
'The Haunted Regions of Sabine Baring-Gould', The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic, ed. Clive Bloom (London: Palgrave, 2021), pp. 559-571
‘Dark Tourism’, The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic, ed. Clive Bloom (London: Palgrave, 2020), pp. 49-62
‘“Imagined ghosts on unfrequented roads”: Cornish Gothic Tourism in the Nineteenth Century’, Virtual Dark Tourism, ed. Kathryn McDaniel (London: Palgrave, 2018), pp. 41-62
'Sea-wolves, Seascapes, and Smugglers: Captain Cruel Coppinger and Criminality in Cornwall', Pirates in History and Popular Culture, ed. Antonio Sanna (North Carolina: McFarland, 2018), pp. 75-87
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