Professor Darryl Jones
Professor of Modern British Literature, English
Biography
Darryl Jones was born in Wales and educated at the University of York. He has taught at TCD since 1994. His major area of teaching and research is nineteenth-century literature and popular literature.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Darryl Jones, M. R. James and the Ghost Story Men: A Cambridge Tale, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2026
Libraries and Museums in, editor(s)Andrew Smith , The Edinburgh Companion to the Victorian Ghost Story, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2024, [Darryl Jones]
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Darryl Jones, (The Oxford Sherlock Holmes), Oxford:, Oxford University Press, 2023, - i-xlvii + 168pp
M. R. James in, editor(s)Robert Edgar and Wayne Johnson , The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror, London, Routledge, 2023, pp55 - 64, [Darryl Jones]
M. R. James's Libraries in, editor(s)Alice Crawford and Robert Crawford , Libraries in Literature, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, pp114 - 127, [Darryl Jones]
Darryl Jones, M. R. James: A Life, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022
Occult Horror in, editor(s)Stephen Shapiro and Mark Storey , The Cambridge Companion to American Horror, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp154 - 168, [Darryl Jones]
The Green Flag, Darryl Jones, (The Edinburgh Conan Doyle), Edinburgh:, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, -
Darryl Jones, 'M. R.James: Towards a New Biography', Ghosts and Scholars, 40, 2021, p8 - 15
Darryl Jones, Horror: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2021, 1 - 131pp
Darryl Jones [trans Belén Urrutia], La Inquietante Historia Del Horror, Madrid, Alianza editorial, 2021, 1 - 171pp
Leonardo Ambasciano, Mathias Clasen, and Darryl Jones, Horror Studies: Between Humanistic Interdisciplinarity and Scientific Consilience, Journal of Cognitive Historiography, 5, (1-2), 2020
Darryl Jones, 'The China Virus: Invasion, Contagion, and the "Yellow Peril", Critical Quarterly, 62, (4), 2020, p41 - 48
J. W. Dunne: The Time Traveller in, editor(s)Trish Ferguson , Literature and Modern Time: Technological Modernity, Glimpses of Eternity, Experiments with Time, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp209 - 232, [Darryl Jones]
The Horror Story in, editor(s)Paul Delaney and Adrian Hunter , The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2019, pp175 - 192, [Darryl Jones]
Stephen Matterson and Darryl Jones, Studying Poetry [Chinese Edition], Shanghai, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2019, 1 - 200pp
M. R. James in, editor(s)Scott Brewster and Luke Thurston , The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story, London, Routledge, 2018, pp134 - 141, [Darryl Jones]
Darryl Jones, Sleeping with the Lights On: The Unsettling Story of Horror, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, xii+181 pp.pp
Darryl Jones, H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, xl + 125pppp
Darryl Jones, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, xxxvi + 182pp
'"Visions of Another Albion": Clive Barker and the Horror of 1980s Britain' in, editor(s)Sorcha Ni Fhlainn , Clive Barker: Dark Imaginer, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2017, pp25 - 40, [Darryl Jones]
'Oscar Cook' in, editor(s)Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice M. Murphy , Lost Souls, Jefferson, NC, McFarland, 2016, pp50 - 53, [Darryl Jones]
Darryl Jones, Arthur Conan Doyle, Gothic Tales, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, xl + 549pppp
'In Defence of Horror' in, editor(s)Alice Northover , The OUPblog Tenth Anniversary Book: Ten Years of Academic Insights for the Thinking World, New York, Oxford University Press, 2015, pp240 - 247, [Darryl Jones]
Iron Mike and Me: The Fall and Further Fall of Mike Tyson in, editor(s)David Scott , Cultures of Boxing, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2015, pp75 - 88, [Darryl Jones]
Darryl Jones, Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2014, xlii+510pppp
'The Lair of the White Worm; or, What became of Bram Stoker?' in, editor(s)Jarlath Killeen , Bram Stoker: Centenary Essays, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2014, pp163 - 178, [Darryl Jones]
'Dracula Goes to London' in, editor(s)Sylvie Mikowski , Ireland and Popular Culture, Oxford , Peter Long, 2014, pp19 - 38, [Darryl Jones]
'Fantasia: Under Milk Wood in the 1950s' in, editor(s)Gerald Dawe, Darryl Jones and Nora Pelizzari , Beautiful Strangers: Ireland and the World of the 1950s, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2013, pp35 - 50, [Darryl Jones]
Darryl Jones, 'The Dead Walk!: The Zombie Phenomenon and the Mysterious Workings of Popular Culture', Shanghai Review of Books, 256, 2013, p6 - 7
'Gone into mourning for the death of the sun': Victorians at the End of Time in, editor(s)Trish Ferguson , Victorian Time: Technologies, Standardizations, Geographies, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, pp178 - 195, [Darryl Jones]
Foreword in, editor(s)Helen Conrad-O'Briain and Gerard Hynes , J.R.R. Tolkien: The Forest and the City, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2013, pp5 - 6, [Darryl Jones]
Gerald Dawe, Darryl Jones and Nora Pelizzari, eds., Beautiful Strangers: Ireland and the World of the 1950s., Oxford, Peter Lang, 2013, ix+197pp.pp
Darryl Jones, 'as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth': The Flood in Victorian Fiction, Literature and Theology, 26, (4), 2012, p439 - 458
M. R. James, Collected Ghost Stories, edited with an Introduction by Darryl Jones, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2011, i-iiixv + 468pppp
Darryl Jones, Welsh Nationalist Horror, Almanac: The Yearbook of Welsh Writing in English, 15, 2011, p1 - 28
'"It's in the Trees! It's Coming!": Night of the Demon and the Decline and Fall of the British Empire' in, editor(s)Darryl Jones, Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice Murphy , It Came from the 1950s: Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties , London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp33 - 54, [Darryl Jones]
Darryl Jones, Elizabeth, McCarthy and Bernice Murphy (eds), It Came from the 1950s: Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties , London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, xiv + 262pppp
Stephen Matterson and Darryl Jones, Studying Poetry, 2nd edition revised, updated and enlarged, 2nd edition, London, Bloomsbury, 2011, 1 - 200pp
'Robert Aickman, the Ghost Story, and the Idea of Englishness' in, editor(s)Helen Conrad O'Briain and Julie-Anne Stephens , The Ghost Story from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century: A Ghostly Genre, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2010, pp61 - 80, [Darryl Jones]
Darryl Jones, 'Ultima Thule: Arthur Gordon Pym, the Polar Imaginary, and the Hollow Earth', Edgar Allan Poe Review, XI, (2), 2010, p56 - 74
'Horror', M. Keith Booker, The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Literature, Oxford and London, Blackwell, 2010, [Darryl Jones]
Darryl Jones, 'Borderlands: Spiritualism and the Occult in Fin-de-Siecle and Edwardian Welsh and Irish Horror', Irish Studies Review, 17, (1), 2009, p31 - 44
'Hunters and Patriots: The Fiction of the American Neo-Nazi Movement' in, editor(s)Kate Hebblethwaite and Elizabeth McCarthy , Fear: Essays on the Meaning and Experience of Fear, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007, pp103 - 122, [Darryl Jones]
Anne Dolan, Patrick Geoghegan and Darryl Jones, eds, Reinterpreting Emmet: Essays on the Life and Legacy of Robert Emmet, Dublin, UCD Press, 2007, 258pp
Darryl Jones, Scenes from the Decline and Fall of the American Empire, Forum, 5, 2007, p1 - 15
'H. G. Wells and the Imagination of Disaster' in, editor(s)Philip Coleman , On Literature and Science: Essays: Reflections, Provocations', Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007, pp129 - 147, [Darryl Jones]
The Liberal Antichrist: Left Behind in America in, editor(s)Kenneth G. C. Newport and Crawford Gribben , Expecting the End: millenarianism in Social and Historical Context, Waco, Texas, Baylor University Press, 2006, pp97 - 112, [Darryl Jones]
'King of the Castle: Shirley Jackson and Stephen King' in, editor(s)Bernice Murphy , Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy, Jefferson, NC, McFarland, 2005, pp214 - 236, [Dara Downey and Darryl Jones]
Darryl Jones, Jane Austen, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
'"Distorted Nature in a Fever": Irish Bulls, Irish Novels, the 1798 Rebellion, and their Gothic Contexts' in, editor(s)Chris Fauske and Heidi Kaufman , Uncomfortable Authority': Maria Edgeworth and her Contexts, Newark, University of Delaware Press, 2004, pp127 - 144, [Darryl Jones]
Darryl Jones, 'Radical Ambivalence: Frances Burney, Jacobinism, and the Politics of Romantic Fiction', Women's Writing, 10, (1), 2003, p3 - 26
Darryl Jones, Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film, London and New York, Arnold and OUP, 2002
Stephen Matterson and Darryl Jones, Studying Poetry, London and New York, Arnold and OUP, 2000
Darryl Jones, '"A Fancy Name in that Incestuous Context": Dannie Abse Writing About Wales', Poetry Ireland Review, 62, 1999, p79 - 83
Gothic Parody, Marie Mulvey-Roberts, The Handbook of Gothic Literature, London, Macmillan, 1998, pp270 - 271, [Darryl Jones]
Darryl Jones, 'I Failed Utterly : Saunders Lewis and the Cultural Politics of Welsh Modernism', The Irish Review, 19, 1996, p22 - 43
Darryl Jones, 'Frekes, Monsters and the Ladies : Attitudes to Female Sexuality in the 1790s', Literature and History, 4, (2), 1995, p1 - 24
Darryl Jones, 'Celtic Nationalism and Postcolonial Theory', SPAN, 41, 1995, p28 - 36
'The Shape of Things to Come: Ideas in Chaos and Society in Collapse' in, editor(s)Sarah Cole and Duncan Bell , The Oxford Handbook to H. G. Wells, Oxford, [Darryl Jones]
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Jones D., The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, 2, 2007
Jones D., The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, 1, 2006
Research Expertise
Recognition
Awards and Honours
F.T.C.D.