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Index
Cover-Page
Half-Title
Title
Copyright
dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Fragments of the Monster: Recovering a Lost Decade
Image: “Motion Picture Purgatory: The Devil Bat (1940)”
Part I: Interventions
1 A “Darkly Hypothetical Reality”: “Gothic Realism” in 1940s Hollywood Horror
2 “Strange Pleasure”: 1940s Proto-Slasher Cinema
3 Dead Zone: Genre, Gender, and the “Lost Decade” of Horror Cinema, 1946–1956
4 Val Lewton, Mr. Gross, and the Grand-Guignol: Re-Staging the Corpse in The Body Snatcher
Part II: Hybridity
5 Robert Siodmak’s The Spiral Staircase: Horror Genre Hybridity, Vertical Alterity, and the Avant-Garde
6 The Child Witness: Peril and Empowerment in 1940s Horror, from The East Side Kids to The Window
7 Making Visible the Sonic Threat: The Inner Sanctum Mysteries Radio Series and Its Universal Studios Film Adaptations
8 Poe, Horror, and the Cinematic Mystery Hybrids of the 1940s
9 “The Murderer’s Mind”: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, and the Monstrous Psychologies of 1940s Horror Film
Part III: History
10 Serial Killers, Deals with the Devil, and the Madness of Crowds: The Horror Film in Nazi-Occupied France
11 “Always Hearing Voices, Never Hearing Mine”: Sound and Fury in The Snake Pit
12 The Demise of the Cinematic Zombie: From the Golden Age of Hollywood to the 1940s
13 Fears New and Old: The Post-War American Horror Film
Part IV: Poverty Row
14 Hypodermic Needles and Evil Twins: The Poverty Row Wartime Horrors of Sam Newfield
15 Of Apes and Men (and Monsters and Girls): The Ape Film and 1940s Horror Cinema
16 “The Perfect Neanderthal Man”: Rondo Hatton as The Creeper and the Cultural Economy of 1940s B-Films
17 The Vampire’s Ghost: The Case for a Poverty Row Classic
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
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