Virtual Dark Tourism

1. Introduction, Virtual Dark Tourism: Disaster in the Space of the Imagination.- 2. "Some Lingering Influence in the Shunned House": H. P. Lovecraft's Three Invitations to Dark Tourism.- 3. "Imagined ghosts on unfrequented roads": Gothic Tourism in Nineteenth-Century Cornwall.- 4. Through the Looking Glass Darkly: The Convergence of Past and Present in Connie Willis's Time-Travel Novels.- 5. Cinematic Thanatourism and the Purloined Past: The "Game of Thrones Effect" and the Effect of Game of Thrones on History.- 6. Touring the "Burning Times": The Rhetoric of Witch-Hunting Films, 1968-1973.- 7. "Did Those Portly Men Over There Once Rush This Position?": Virtual Dark Tourism and D-Day Commemorations.- 8. Thanaviewing, the Aokigahara Forest, and Orientalism: Rhetorical Separations between the Self and the Other in The Forest.- 9. Experiencing Rwanda: Understanding Mass Atrocity at Nyamata.- 10. Hurricane Katrina Goes Digital: Memory, Dark Tours, and YouTube.- 11.A Virtual Dark Journey through the Debris: Playing Inside the Haiti Earthquake (2010).- 12. Surviving the Colonial Blizzard: The Alaskan Native Game Never Alone as a Walkthrough in Cultural Resistance.- 13. Virtually Historical: Performing Dark Tourism through Alternate History Games.- 14. Remembering Fictional History and Virtual War in EVE Online.

Kathryn N. McDaniel is Andrew U. Thomas Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History, Philosophy, and Religion at Marietta College, USA. A British historian specializing in intersections between popular culture and history, she is also co-editor of Harry Potter for Nerds 2.