1 Anti-Catholicism and the Gothic Ideology:Interlocking Discourse Networks -- 2 The Construction of the Gothic Nun: Fantasies and the Religious Imaginary -- 3 The Spectre of Theocracy: Mysterious Monks and 'Priestcraft' -- 4 The Foreign Threat: Inquisitions, Autos-da-Fé and Bloody Tribunals -- 5 Ruined Abbeys: Justifying Stolen Property and the Crusade against Superstition -- Epilogue: The Penny Dreadful and the (Almost) Last Gasp of the Gothic Ideology