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

Pandæmonium 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.