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Notes on Contributors

1. Evil Children in Film and Literature
Karen J. Renner

2. My Baby Ate the Dingo: The Visual Construction of the Monstrous Infant in Horror Film
Steffen Hantke

3. Monstrous Children as Harbingers of Mortality: A Psychological Analysis of Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child
Daniel Sullivan and Jeff Greenberg

4. Spoil the Child: Unsettling Ethics and the Representation of Evil
William Wandless

5. Private Lessons from Dumbledore's “Chamber of Secrets”: The Riddle of the Evil Child in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Holly Blackford

6. Terrifying Tots and Hapless Homes: Undoing Modernity in Recent Bollywood Cinema
Meheli Sen

7. “The Power of Christ Compels You”: Holy Water, Hysteria, and the Oedipal Psychodrama in The Exorcist
Sara Williams

8. How to See the Horror: The Hostile Fetus in Rosemary's Baby and Alien
A. Robin Hoffman

9. Extreme Human Makeovers: Supernanny , the Unruly Child, and Adulthood in Crisis
Catherine Fowler and Rebecca Kambuta

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