Published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks 911 Gothic Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York Cityamprsquos Terrorism Novels returns to the ruins and anguish of 911 to pose a question not yet addressed by scholarship. Two time World Fantasy Awardwinning writer Danel Olson asks how why and where New York City novels capture the terror of the AlQaeda mass murders through a supernatural lens. This book explores ghostly presences from the worldamprsquos largest crime scene in novels by Don DeLillo Jonathan Safran Foer Lynne Sharon Schwartz Griffin Hansbury and Patrick McGrathampmdashall of whom have been called writers of Gotham. Arguing how theories on trauma and the Gothic can combine to explain ghostly encounters civilian survivors experience in fiction Olson shares what those eerie meetings express about grief guilt love memory sex and suicidal urges. This book also explores why and how paths to recovery open for these ghostvisited survivors in the fiction of catastrophe from the early twentyfirst century.