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Index
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Figures
Part I. Approaching the Genre
1 Horror
Overview
Origins
Defining Horror
Taking It All In
Spectacle and Suggestion
Nightmares and Forbidden Texts
Real and Imagined Horror
Endings
Recurring Elements
Beauty
Reflexivity
Appeal
Frames and Windows
Endnotes
2 The Monster at the Bedroom Window
Tarantula
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Nosferatu
Frankenstein
King Kong
The Mummy’s Tomb and Others
Back to the Tarantula
Endnotes
3 Fear in a Frame
Dreams and Reflexivity in Vampyr
Narrative Structure in Dead of Night
The Unfilmable in Peeping Tom
The Mummy’s Tale
Categories
Endnotes
Part II. Subgenres: The Book of Monsters
4 Monsters
Transforming Monsters: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Thing
Constructed Monsters: Frankenstein
Composite Monsters: Island of Lost Souls and The Fly
Giants: King Kong and Them!
Little People: The Devil-Doll
Animals: Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Birds and Jurassic Park
Body Parts: The Beast with Five Fingers
Monsters from Outer Space: The Thing From Another World and Alien
Monsters from the Lab: “You Made Us Things!”
Monsters from Underwater: It Came from Beneath the Sea
Plants: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Minerals: The Monolith Monsters
Amorphous Monsters: The Blob
Child Monsters: It’s Alive, The Brood and The Funhouse
Parasites: Shivers
Machines: The Car
Monsters from Underground: The Descent
5 Supernatural Monsters
Demons and the Devil: Faust and The Evil Dead
Doubles: The Student of Prague
Vampires: Nosferatu and Dracula
Witches: Häxan and Suspiria
Ghosts: The Uninvited and Ringu
Zombies: White Zombie and Night of the Living Dead
Mummies: The Mummy’s Ghost
Others Back from the Dead: The Walking Dead
Werewolves and Other Shape-Shifters: The Wolf Man and Cat People
Legendary Figures: Candyman
Nameless Forces: Final Destination
Immortal Slashers: Michael, Jason and Freddy
Endnotes
6 Humans
Mad Scientists and Doctors: Caligari and Mad Love
Romantics: The Phantom of the Opera
Human Anomalies: Freaks
Artists: Mystery of the Wax Museum and In the Mouth of Madness
Believers: The Black Cat, Blood Feast and The Wicker Man
Sadists and Torturers: The Raven, Salò and Hostel
Ghouls: The Body Snatcher and Ed Gein
Mad Killers: Psycho and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Families: The Last House on the Left and The TexasChain Saw Massacre
Psychics and Telekinetics: Carrie and Scanners
The Infected: Rabid and 28 Days Later
Cannibals: Eaten Alive! and Cannibal Holocaust
Slashers: Scream
Endnotes
Part III. Related Genres
7 Horror Comedy
Monster Comedies: Young Frankenstein
Supernatural Comedies: The Return of the Living Dead
Human Comedies: Arsenic and Old Lace
8 Horror Documentary
Death on Camera
Autopsy: The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes
Looking at Horror
Endnotes
Films Cited
Selected Bibliography
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