Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 Theory; Chapter 2 The Fantastic as a Mode; Chapter 3 Psychoanalytical Perspectives; Part 2 Texts; Chapter 4 Gothic Tales and Novels; Chapter 5 Fantastic Realism; Chapter 6 Victorian Fantasies; Chapter 7 From Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’ to Pynchon’s ‘Entropy’; Chapter 8 Afterword: The ‘Unseen’ of Culture;