Gothic at Absolute Zero: Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, The

Frank, Frederick S. "The Gothic at Absolute Zero: Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym." Extrapolation 21 (Spring 1980): 21-30.

Presents the final sction of Pym as an escape from a "globalized Gothic Castle" into a "lost Eden." (This escape pattern is highly important for dystopian works featuring mechanized Gothic castles on a global scale, sometimes contrasted with Garden worlds.)