Table of Contents

Introduction, Margaret Kean PART I: Cum Timor et Tremore: Landscapes for Hell Folk Horror: Hell and the Land in Old English Homilies for Rogationtide, Helen Appleton Pandaemonium as Parallax: Metropolitan Underworlds and Anarchist Clubs in Nineteenth-Century London and its Literature, Charlotte Jones Hell's Museum, Singapore, Interview: Jeya Ayadurai PART II: Out into this World: Sensory Hells The Taste of Food in Hell: Cognition and the Buried Myth of Tantalus in Early Modern English Texts, Laura Seymour Hell's Kitchen: Underworlds in Leonora Carrington's Down Below and The Hearing Trumpet, Hannah Silverblank Samuel Beckett's Not I, Interview: Lisa Dwan PART III: Mind the Gap: Telling the Tale Terra tremens: Katabasis in Seamus Heaney's District and Circle (2006), Rachel Falconer Whirlpools, Black Holes and Vortical Hells in Literature, Jonathan R. Olson The Song of Orpheus, Interview: David Almond

About the Author

MARGARET KEAN is the Dame Helen Gardner Fellow in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford. MARGARET KEAN is the Dame Helen Gardner Fellow in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford.