Christine FergusonChristine Ferguson is a Chair in English Studies at the University of Stirling. Her expertise lies in the entwined histories of the literary Gothic and modern occult and spiritualist movements. She is the author of Determined Spirits: Eugenics, Heedity, and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing (EUP 2012), Language, Science and Popular Fiction: The Brutal Tongue (Ashgate 2006), and numerous book chapters and articles on the occult fiction of writers such Arthur Machen, Rosa Campbell Praed, H.P. Blavatsky, and Arthur Conan Doyle. Read More Read Less