Nick Groom, known as the “Prof of Goth,” is professor of English at Exeter University, UK. His previous titles include The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction, and The Seasons: A Celebration of the English Year, which was shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award and came runner-up for BBC Countryfile Book of the Year.
Books in order of publication:
The Making of Percy’s Reliques. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999.
Thomas Chatterton and Romantic culture. Published by London: Macmillan ; New York : St Martin’s Press, 1999
Introducing Shakespeare (Cambridge: Icon, 2001), with illustrations by Piero. 176pp.
The Forger’s Shadow: How Forgery Changed the Course of Literature (London: Picador, 2002; paperback, 2003). 350pp.
The Union Jack: The Story of the British Flag (London: Atlantic, 2006; paperback, 2007). xxii + 398pp
The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). Xviii + 164pp.
The Seasons: An Elegy for the Passing of the Year (London: Atlantic, 2013), 400pp.
Anniversary edition of Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (Oxford University Press, 2014)
Edition of Matthew Lewis, The Monk (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Edition of Ann Radcliffe, The Italian (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Anniversary edition of Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Oxford University Press, 2018)
The Vampire: A New History (Yale University Press, 2018)
Twenty-First Century Tolkien: What Middle-earth Means to Us Today (Atlantic Books, 2022)
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