ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on what is happening in the children's Gothic now, in the new millennium, when the monsters have become the heroes, when new and newly configured monsters come into play, when globalization brings Harry Potter into China and yaoguai into the children's Gothic, and when childhood itself and children's literature as a genre can no longer be thought of as a space that can be kept apart as an uncontested space, free from the debates and power struggles of an adult domain. The energies and anxieties of recent children's novels and series can barely be contained anymore within the genre of children's literature, spilling over into epic, elegy, horror, YA and adult literature and into fan fiction and out of literature altogether; while some of the most interesting recent adult literary works look back at the children's Gothic, unsettling the childhood reading from the other side, in ways that might alter the landscape forever.
