Danny’s Endless Tricycle Ride: The Gothic and Adaptation

The heritage of Gothic literature is evident in the way it continues to fascinate and haunt our contemporary culture. Whether it is atmospheric Victorian ghost stories, the exploits of mad scientists Frankenstein and Jekyll or the nightmare worlds in the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker, Gothic literature continues to be read, retold and contested, its themes, obsessions and worldview recurrently resonating into our own time. This is nowhere more evident than in the practice and industry of film adaptation. In its ceaseless search for source material, cinema has turned, time and again, to Gothic literature. Whether it