Signs & Wonders
Essays on Literature and Culture Chatto & Windus, 2003 Vintage Paperback, October 2004
non-fiction
Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media
published by Oxford University Press Published in paperback by Vintage, 2004
Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds : Ways of Telling the Self
published by Oxford University Press Published in paperback by Vintage, 2004
No Go the Bogeyman
On Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock ( London, 1998) Vintage (paperback) UK Chatto & Windus (hardback) UK. Re-published as Monsters of Our Own Making - The Peculiar pleasure of Fear, by The University of Kentucky Press (paperback, 2007)
The Inner Eye
Art Beyond the Visible. Catalogue of exhibition, Manchester, Brighton, Swansea, Dulwich Picture Gallery (London, l996-97) Vintage (paperback) UK
From the Beast to the Blonde
On Fairy Tales and their Tellers (London, l994) Vintage (paperback) UK Chatto & Windus (hardback) UK; Farrar, Straus & Giroux (hardback & paperback) US
Managing Monsters
Six Myths of Our Time. The l994 Reith Lectures (London, l994) (US title: Six Myths of Our Time, New York, l995) Vintage (paperback) UK, US
L’Atalante
British Film Institute BFI Film Classic (London 1994)
Into the Dangerous World
Some reflections on childhood and its costs. Counterblast 5 (London, l988)
Monuments & Maidens
The allegory of the female form, (London, l985) Vintage (paperback) UK; University of California Press (paperback) reprinted,US, 2001
Joan of Arc
The image of female heroism (London, l981) Vintage (paperback) UK; University of California Press (paperback) US
Alone of All Her Sex
The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (London, l976) Vintage (paperback) UK, US
The Dragon Empress
The life and Times of Tz’u-hsi, Empress Dowager of China, l835-1980 (London, l972)
