Exotic Gothic: Forbidden Tales from Our Gothic World,in the old Gothic, nothing scared so much as a touch of the cold and the foreign in the midst of the familiar, for it begged the question, “What has become of the world we knew?”, The twenty-three stories in Exotic Gothic ask this question differently: “What has become of the world we know?” These stories are concerned with the here and now, and demonstrate how today’s international Gothicists are reimagining the traditional setting, mood, and characters of their British, German, and French predecessors.