Horner, Avril [Researcher] (2024) Barbara Comyns : a savage innocence. Manchester, U.K. : Manchester University Press. 372p. ISSN (print) 9781526173744

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue, eds. (2024) Comic Gothic : an Edinburgh companion. Edinburgh, U.K. : Edinburgh University Press. 296p. (Edinburgh companions to the Gothic) ISBN 9781399505758 (In Press)

Horner, Avril (2021) The legend and the crazy novelist : Graham Greene's role in Barbara Comyn's writing career. TLS : The Times Literary Supplement(6149), pp. 10-11. ISSN (print) 0307-661X

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2020) Daphne du Maurier : sex and death the Italian way. In: Newton, Michael and van Leeuwens, Evert Jan, (eds.) Haunted Europe : continental connections in English-language Gothic writing, film and new media. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 107-122. ISBN 9780367271848

Horner, Avril (2019) Gothic and surrealism : subculture, counterculture and cultural assimilation. In: Punter, David, (ed.) The Edinburgh companion to Gothic and the arts. Edinburgh, UK : Edinburgh University Press. pp. 148-158. ISBN 9781474432351

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2016) Introduction. In: Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue, (eds.) Women and the Gothic : an Edinburgh companion. Edinburgh, U.K. : Edinburgh University Press. pp. 1-14. (Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic) ISBN 9780748699124

Horner, Avril and Rowe, Anne, eds. (2016) Living on paper : letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995. London, U.K. : Vintage. 688p. ISBN 9780099570158

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2016) No country for old women : gender, age and the Gothic. In: Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue, (eds.) Women and the Gothic : an Edinburgh companion. Edinburgh, U.K. : Edinburgh University Press. pp. 184-198. (Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic) ISBN 9780748699124

Beer, Janet and Horner, Avril (2016) Southern hauntings : Kate Chopin's Gothic. In: Castillo Street, Susan and Crow, Charles L., (eds.) The Palgrave handbook of the Southern Gothic. London, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 95-107. ISBN 9781137477736

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue, eds. (2016) Women and the Gothic : an Edinburgh companion. Edinburgh, U.K. : Edinburgh University Press. 248p. (Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic) ISBN 9780748699124

Beer, Janet and Horner, Avril (2015) 'The great panorama': Edith Wharton as historical novelist. Modern Language Review (MLR), 110(1), pp. 69-84. ISSN (print) 0026-7937

Horner, Avril and Rowe, Anne, eds. (2015) Living on paper : letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995. London, U.K. : Chatto & Windus. 688p. ISBN 9780701187057

Horner, Avril and Rowe, Anne, eds. (2015) Living on paper : letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995. Rev. ed. Princeton, NJ, U.S. : Princeton University Press. 688p. ISBN 9780691170565

Horner, Avril (2014) Apocalypses now: collective trauma, globalisation and the new Gothic sublime. In: Nadal, Marita and Calvo, Monica, (eds.) Trauma in contemporary literature: narrative and representation. London, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 35-50. (Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature, (26)) ISBN 9780415715874

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2014) Gothic configurations of gender. In: Hogle, Jerrold E., (ed.) The Cambridge companion to the modern Gothic. Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press. pp. 55-70. (Cambridge companions to literature) ISBN 9781107023567

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2014) The apocalyptic sublime: then and now. In: Germana, Monica and Mousoutzanis, Aris, (eds.) Apocalyptic discourse in contemporary culture: post-millennial perspectives on the end of the world. London, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 57-70. (Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature, (30)) ISBN 9780415712583

Horner, Avril (2013) Walpole, the Gothic, and surrealism. In: Gothic : culture, subculture, counterculture; 08-09 Mar 2013, Twickenham, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Horner, Avril (2013) 'The Dark Knight': fear, the law and liquid modernity. In: Byron, Glennis, (ed.) Globalgothic. Manchester, U.K. : Manchester University Press. pp. 175-187. (International Gothic) ISBN 9780719087950

Horner, Avril and Beer, Janet (2012) Edith Wharton : sex, satire and the older woman. In: Oxford Literary Festival; 24 Mar - 01 Apr 2012, Oxford, U.K..

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2012) Comic Gothic. In: Punter, David, (ed.) A new companion to the Gothic. Chichester, U.K. : Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 321-324. ISBN 9781405198066

Rowe, Anne and Horner, Avril (2012) Introduction. In: Rowe, Anne and Horner, Avril, (eds.) Iris Murdoch: texts and contexts. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 1-9. ISBN 9780230348288

Rowe, Anne and Horner, Avril, eds. (2012) Iris Murdoch: texts and contexts. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. 246p. ISBN 9780230348288

Horner, Avril (2012) Victorian Gothic and national identity: cross-Channel "mysteries". In: Smith, Andrew and Hughes, William, (eds.) The Victorian Gothic: an Edinburgh companion. Edinburgh, U.K. : Edinburgh University Press. pp. 108-123. ISBN 9780748642496

Horner, Avril (2012) The 'wondrous necessary man': Canetti, 'The unicorn' and 'The changeling'. In: Rowe, Anne and Horner, Avril, (eds.) Iris Murdoch: texts and contexts. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 163-176. ISBN 9780230348288

Horner, Avril (2011) Apocalypses now : collective trauma and global gothic. In: Beyond Trauma: Narratives of (impossibility); 31 Mar - 02 Apr 2011, Zaragoza, Spain.

Horner, Avril and Beer, Janet (2011) Edith Wharton: Sex, Satire and the Older Woman. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. 216p. ISBN 9781403941268

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue, eds. (2011) The heroine or adventures of a fair romance reader by Eaton Stannard Barrett. 1813. Kansas City, U.S.A. : Valancourt Books. 338p. ISBN 9781934555910

Horner, Avril [Speaker] and Zlosnik, Sue [Speaker] (2010) Global gothic. In: Kingston Reader's Festival; 08 May 2010, Kingston upon Thames, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Rowe, Anne and Horner, Avril (2010) Introduction: Art, morals and 'The discovery of reality'. In: Rowe, Anne and Horner, Avril, (eds.) Iris Murdoch and morality. Basingstoke, U.K. : Macmillan. pp. 1-14. ISBN 9780230224452

Rowe, Anne and Horner, Avril, eds. (2010) Iris Murdoch and morality. Basingstoke, U.K. : Macmillan. 198p. ISBN 9780230224452

Horner, Avril (2010) 'Refinements of evil': Iris Murdoch and the gothic. In: Rowe, Anne and Horner, Avril, (eds.) Iris Murdoch and morality. Basingstoke, U.K. : Macmillan. pp. 70-84. ISBN 9780230224452

Horner, Avril (2010) Women, power and conflict: The Gothic Heroine and "Chocolate Box" Gothic. Anglophonia: French Journal of English Studies, 27, pp. 319-330. ISSN (print) 1278-3331

Horner, Avril (2009) The gothic heroine : the reins of power and the conflicted self. In: Women, conflict and power; 15-17 Oct 2009, Toulouse, France.

Horner, Avril [Speaker] and Zlosnik, Sue [Speaker] (2009) The Gothic heroine revived. In: Kingston Reader's Festival; 23 Apr - 22 May 2009, Kingston upon Thames, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Zlosnik, Sue and Horner, Avril (2009) 'Myself when Others: Daphne du Maurier and the Double Dialogue with "D"'. Women: A Cultural Review, 20(1), pp. 9-24. ISSN (print) 0957-4042

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2009) Comic gothic. In: Mulvey-Roberts, Marie, (ed.) The handbook of the gothic. 2nd ed. Basingstoke, U.K. : Macmillan. pp. 109-109. ISBN 9780230008533

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2009) Daphne du Maurier. In: Mulvey-Roberts, Marie, (ed.) The handbook of the gothic. Basingstoke, U.K. : Macmillan. pp. 26-27. ISBN 9780230008533

Horner, Avril and Beer, Janet (2009) Edith Wharton and modernism: The mother's recompense. In: Morley, Catherine and Goody, Alex, (eds.) American modernism: cultural transactions. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 69-92. ISBN 9781443813570

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2009) Keeping it in the family: incest and the female gothic plot in du Maurier and Murdoch. In: Wallace, Diana and Smith, Andrew, (eds.) The Female Gothic: New Directions. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 115-132. ISBN 9780230222717

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2008) Introduction. In: Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue, (eds.) Le Gothic: influences and appropriations in Europe and America. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 1-11. ISBN 9780230517646

Horner, Avril (2008) Kate Chopin, choice and modernism. In: Beer, Janet, (ed.) The Cambridge companion to Kate Chopin. Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press. pp. 132-146. ISBN 9780521883443

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue, eds. (2008) Le Gothic: influences and appropriations in Europe and America. Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan. 264p. ISBN 9780230517646

Horner, Avril (2007) Daphne du Maurier and the double dialogue with D. In: The spirit of the age: debating the past, present and future of life writing; 04-06 Jul 2007, Kingston Upon Thames, U.K..

Beer, Janet and Horner, Avril (2007) Wharton the 'renovator': Twilight Sleep as Gothic satire. The Yearbook of English Studies, 37(1), pp. 177-192. ISSN (print) 0306-2473

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2007) Glimpses of the dark side. In: Taylor, Helen, (ed.) The Daphne du Maurier companion. London, U.K. : Virago. pp. 242-248. ISBN 9781844082353

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2006) Barbara Comyns. In: Hammill, Faye , Sponenberg, Ashlie and Miskimmin, Esme, (eds.) Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing, 1900-1950. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403916921

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2006) Daphne du Maurier. In: Hammill, Faye , Sponenberg, Ashlie and Miskimmin, Esme, (eds.) Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing, 1900-1950. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403916921

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2006) Female gothic. In: Powell, Anna and Smith, Andrew, (eds.) Teaching the gothic. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 107-120. ISBN 1403949301

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2005) Gothic and the comic turn. Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan. 205p. ISBN 0333771516

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2004) Skin chairs and other domestic horrors: Barbara Comyns and the female gothic tradition. Gothic Studies, 6(1), pp. 90-102. ISSN (print) 1362-7937

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2004) Dead funny: gothic, gender and the comic turn. Anglophonia: French journal of English studies, 15, pp. 185-198. ISSN (print) 1278-3331

Beer, Janet and Horner, Avril (2003) "This isn't exactly a ghost story": Edith Wharton and parodic Gothic. Journal of American Studies, 37(2), pp. 269-285. ISSN (print) 0021-8758

Horner, Avril (2003) 'Small female skull': patriarchy and philosophy in the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy. In: Michelis, Angelica and Rowland, Antony, (eds.) The poetry of Carol Ann Duffy: 'Choosing tough words'. Manchester, U.K. : Manchester University Press. pp. 99-120. ISBN 0719063019

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2002) Agriculture, body sculpture, gothic culture: gothic parody in Gibbons, Atwood and Weldon. Gothic Studies, 4(2), pp. 167-177. ISSN (print) 1362-7937

Horner, Avril, ed. (2002) European Gothic: a spirited exchange 1760-1960. Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press. 260p. ISBN 0719060648

Horner, Avril (2002) Introduction. In: Horner, Avril, (ed.) European Gothic : a spirited exchange. Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press. pp. 1-16. ISBN 0719060648

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2002) 'Moving pictures': family portraits, gothic anxieties and Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. In: Smith, Andrew , Mason, Diane and Hughes, William, (eds.) Fictions of unease: the gothic from Otranto to The X-files. Bath, U.K. : Sulis Press. pp. 170-182. ISBN 095268568X

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2002) Unreal cities and undead legacies: T.S.Eliot and gothic hauntings in Waugh's A handful of dust and Barnes's Nightwood. In: Beer, Janet and Bennet, Bridget, (eds.) Special relationships: Anglo-American affinities and antagonisms 1854-1936. Manchester, U.K. : Manchester University Press. pp. 224-241. ISBN 071905818X

Horner, Avril (2002) A detour of filthiness: French fiction and Djuna Barnes's Nightwood. In: Horner, Avril, (ed.) European Gothic. Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press. pp. 230-251. ISBN 0719060648

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2001) Dame Daphne Du Maurier. In: Clark, Robert, (ed.) The Literary Encyclopedia. Norwich, U.K. : The Literary Dictionary Company Limited. ISSN (online) 1747-678X

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2001) Strolling in the dark: gothic flanerie in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood. In: Smith, Andrew and Wallace, Jeff, (eds.) Gothic modernisms. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave. pp. 78-94. ISBN 0333918738

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2000) Dead funny: Eaton Stannard Barrett's The heroine as comic gothic. Cardiff Corvey: reading the romantic text, 5(2), ISSN (online) 1748-5988

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2000) 'Releasing spirit from matter': comic alchemy in Spark's The Ballad of Peckham Rye, Updike's The witches of Eastwick and Mantel's Fludd. Gothic studies, 2(1), pp. 136-147. ISSN (print) 1362-7937

Horner, Avril and Keane, Angela, eds. (2000) Body matters: feminism, textuality, corporeality. Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press. 260p. ISBN 0719054680

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2000) Comic gothic. In: Punter, David, (ed.) A companion to the gothic. Oxford, U.K. : Blackwell. pp. 242-254. (Blackwell companions to literature and culture, (4)) ISBN 0631206205

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2000) Daphne du Maurier and Gothic signatures: Rebecca as vamp(ire). In: Horner, Avril and Keane, Angela, (eds.) Body matters: feminism, textuality, corporeality. Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press. pp. 209-222. ISBN 0719054680

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (2000) Daphne du Maurier: the French connection. In: Todd, Richard and Flora, Luisa, (eds.) Theme parks, rainforests and sprouting wastelands: European essays on theory and performance in contemporary British fiction. Amsterdam, The Netherlands : Rodopi. pp. 173-184. ISBN 9042005025

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (1999) Deaths in Venice: Daphne du Maurier's 'Don't look now'. In: Glennis, Byron and Punter, David, (eds.) Spectral readings: towards a gothic geography. Basingstoke, U.K. : Macmillan. pp. 219-232. ISBN 9780333699096

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (1998) Daphne du Maurier: writing, identity and the gothic imagination. Basingstoke, UK : Macmillan Press. 235p. ISBN 0333643348

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (1998) 'Extremely valuable property': the marketing of Rebecca. In: Simons, Judy and Fullbrook, Kate, (eds.) Writing: a woman's business: women, writing and the marketplace. Manchester, U.K. : Manchester University Press. pp. 48-65. ISBN 0719052807

Horner, Avril (1998) Heroine. In: Mulvey-Roberts, Marie, (ed.) The handbook to gothic literature. Basingstoke, U.K. : Macmillan. pp. 115-119. ISBN 0333670698

Horner, Avril (1998) Transgression. In: Mulvey-Roberts, Marie, (ed.) The handbook to gothic literature. Basingstoke, U.K. : Macmillan. pp. 286-287. ISBN 0333670698

Horner, Avril (1998) Unheimlich (the uncanny). In: Mulvey-Roberts, Marie, (ed.) The handbook to gothic literature. Basingstoke, U.K. : Macmillan. pp. 287-288. ISBN 0333670698

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (1996) A "disembodied spirit": the letters and fiction of Daphne du Maurier. Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism, 19(2), pp. 186-199. ISSN (print) 0144-0357

Horner, A. and Zlosnik, S. (1996) 'Those curious, sloping letters': reading the writing of du Maurier's Rebecca. Barcelona English language and literature studies, 7, pp. 105-115. ISSN (online) 1697-1612

Horner, Avril (1995) "The poet's true commitment": Geoffrey Hill, the computer, and original sin. In: Salyer, Gregory and Detweiler, Robert, (eds.) Literature and theology at century's end. Atlanta, U.S. : Scholars Press. pp. 159-176. ISBN 0788500708

Horner, Avril (1994) Cernunnos arisen: the Celtic element in Geoffrey Hill's Mercian hymns. In: Thomas, Neil, (ed.) Celtic and Germanic themes in European literature. Lewiston, U.S. : Edwin Mellen Press. pp. 47-59. ISBN 0773494200

Horner, Avril and Lindop, Grevel (1991) Geoffrey Hill, John Cowper Powys, and 'The laurel axe'. Notes and Queries, 38(3), pp. 347-348. ISSN (print) 0029-3970

Horner, Avril (1991) Virginia Woolf, history, and the metaphors of Orlando. In: Easson, Angus, (ed.) History and the novel. Cambridge, U.K. : D.S. Brewer. pp. 70-87. (Essays & Studies, (1991)) ISBN 0859913228

Horner, Avril (1990) 'Linnaean Pentecosts': Geoffrey Hill's 'An apology for the revival of Christian architecture in England'. Literature and Theology, 4(1), pp. 84-103. ISSN (print) 0269-1205

Horner, Avril and Zlosnik, Sue (1990) Landscapes of desire: metaphors in modern women's fiction. Hemel Hempstead, U.K. : Harvester Wheatsheaf. 231p. ISBN 0710812280

Horner, Avril (1989) Geoffrey Hill, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and 'Christmas trees'. Notes and Queries, 36(2), pp. 209-210. ISSN (print) 0029-3970

Horner, Avril (1987) Hill's 'Asmodeus'. The Explicator, 46(1), pp. 50-53. ISSN (print) 0014-4940