Introduction: Shaping Global Horror Studies
Stacey Abbott, Adam Lowenstein, Roger Luckhurst and Kristopher Woofter
PART ONE: Transnational Histories and Transmedial Forms
Literature
1 Prehistory: Tragedy and Horror
Edmund P. Cueva
2 Terror and Horror in the Long Eighteenth Century
Sam Hirst
3 Horror 'from Germany': Circuits of Translation Between Britain, Germany, France, and the US Around 1800
Barry Murnane
4 Horror and the Small Presses
James Machin
5 The Ghost Story as Transcultural Trope
Jen Baker
6 Vectors of Terror: Concepts of Horror in the Pulp Magazines, 1896-1953
Jess Nevins
7 Paperback Writer: Stephen King and the Horror Paperback Boom
Carl H. Sederholm
8 Discovering a Tradition of African American Horror Poetry in the United States
Linda D. Addison
Horror Cinema
9 Horror in Silent Cinema Across the Globe
Kendall R. Phillips
10 Phantom Powered: Hollywood Horror and the Early Talkie, 1927-1930
Gary D. Rhodes
11 Global Horror in the Studio Era, 1930-1970
Kieran Foster
12 Fearsome Families: Horror Cinema, 1968-1979
Jason Middleton
13 The Slasher as an International Subgenre
Wickham Clayton
14 Millennial Nightmares: Horror in the Twenty-First Century
Aviva Briefel
15 Horror Stars and Performance
Ian Olney
16 The Ecosystem of Women in Horror Film Festivals and Women-Made Short Films
Claire Henry
TV Horror
17 Sight, Sound, Mind: The Horror Anthology's Influence on US Television
Erin Giannini
18 TV Movie/Monster-of-the-Week
Clayton Dillard
19 Monsters, Murder, and Melodrama, the Rise of Korean Horror Television
Katarzyna Ancuta
20 Y¿kai of Yesteryear: Japan's Early TV Horror and Y¿kai Ningen Bem (1968)
Selma A. Purac
21 Prestige TV Horror
Godze Erdogan
22 Ghostly Visitors and Haunting Returns: Twin Peaks, Riget, and Art-Horror TV
Andreas Halskov
23 Trash TV Horror
James Rendell and Andrew Rayment
24 Children's Television Horror: Safety and Danger in a Global Tradition
Catherine Lester
Transmedial Horror
25 Theatre and Horror: Contemporary Paranormal Theatre in Britain: Liveness and Haunting
Rebecca Janicker
26 Music and Horror
Steve Halfyard
27 Radio Horror
Richard J. Hand
28 Horror Podcasting: True Crime and Horror
Stella Marie Gaynor
29 Fine Art and Body Horror: The Body in Fragments in Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 and Brandon Cronenberg's Infinity Pool
Marcus Prasad
30 Horror and Comics: Splatter in Black and White: Independent Horror Comics of the Late 1980s and Early 1990s
Johnny Walker
31 Microhorror and the Genealogy of the Video Game Genre
Jean-Charles Ray and Bernard Perron
32 The (New) Medium is the Monster: Networked Digital Horror
Joe Ondrak
33 Strange Folk and Weird Rituals: Folk Horror as Transnational and Transmedia Trope
Nina K. Martin
34 Preserving Horror: The Horror Studies Collection at the University of Pittsburgh Library System
Benjamin T. Rubin
PART TWO: The Seven Continents of Horror
35 Snapshots From Around the World
Introduction
Stacey Abbott, Adam Lowenstein, Roger Luckhurst amd Kristopher Woofter
Snapshot 1: Nordic Horror
Christer Bakke Andresen
Snapshot 2: Nollywood Horrors: Witchery and Religiosity in African Cinema
Saheed Adesumbo Bello
Snapshot 3: Turkish Horror: The (Nation) State of the Hybrid
Tugce Bicakci-Syed
Snapshot 4: Local Frights and Universal Themes in Kourosh Ahari's The Night
Max Bledstein
Snapshot 5: New Cartographies for Horror in When Evil Lurks (Demián Rugna 2023)
María Belén Caparrós
Snapshot 6: Everyday Gothic in the Global South
Manuela Coppola and Kartik Nair
Snapshot 7: Whispers from the Horn: Ethiopian Supernatural Literature as a Gap in 'African Horror'
Dawit Dibekulu Alem
Snapshot 8: Egypt: Hyphen-Horror Picture Shows
Roxanne Douglas
Snapshot 9: Hyperlocal EcoGothic: E. F. Benson's 'The Man Who Went Too Far'
Michael Dunn
Snapshot 10: The Tropical Gothic of Cali in Colombia: An Introduction
Giovanni Festa
Snapshot 11: From Israel with Fright
Olga Gershenson
Snapshot 12: Antarctic Horror
Rune Grauland
Snapshot 13: Making Heart Eyes at Aotearoa
Erin Harrington
Snapshot 14: South African Horror(s): Four Theses: An Overview of Rebirth
Mélanie Joseph-Vilain
Snapshot 15: I Must Fear-Fear is the Life-Saver
Sami Ahmad Khan
Snapshot 16: Ukrainian Horror: Identity Games
Serhii Ksaverov
Snapshot 17: Transnational Mutations of the Feline Other: Horror Philosophy in The Black Cat and Legend of the Demon Cat
Fang Liu
Snapshot 18: Hands Off My Wendigo!
Jenni Makahnouk
Snapshot 19: The Reluctant Traveller: South African Homebody-Horror Cinema and Global Circulation
Alan Muller
Snapshot 20: Arctic Horror Cinema
Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Snapshot 21: Hardly a Vampire in Sight? On the Dearth of Vampire Horror Films in Croatia and Yugoslavia
Antonija Primorac
Snapshot 22: The Returned: A Borderland Horror
Eduardo A. Russo
Snapshot 23: Horror and World-Systems Theory
Stephen Shapiro
Snapshot 24: Slavery and Global Horror
Mark Storey
Snapshot 25: Horror-Worlds: Impure Hells and the Cosmopolitics of the Confines in Latin American Women's Horror Fiction
Alejandra Bottinelli Wolleter
PART THREE: Theory
Conceptual Frames
36 Horror and Adaptation
Simon Brown
37 Cultural Approaches to Horror Studies
Craig Ian Mann
38 Horror Cinema and Trauma
Xavier Aldana Reyes
39 Supernatural or Super Unnatural? An Examination of Postcolonial Horror
Shiv Ramdas
40 Horror and World Cinema
Rosalind Galt
41 Horror and Religion
Per Faxneld and Aren Roukema
42 Horror and Philosophy
Patricia MacCormack
43 Losing Consciousness: Medical Humanities and Horror Studies
Gordon David Lyle Bates
44 Eco-Horror: Weird(ed) World
Kristopher Woofter
Intersections of Identity
45 Class and Horror
Mark Bould
46 No Gods, No Masters: Resistance in Contemporary Argentine Horror Films by Women
Valeria Villegas Lindvall
47 Race and Horror: Recovering Evelda: The Africanist Presence in Hannibal (2001)
Mikal J. Gaines
48 Sex in Horror Film
Steve Jones
49 Children's Horror and Queer Self-Fashioning
Brian Johnson
50 Critical Disability Studies and Horror Cinema
Angela Marie Smith
51 Whiteness and Horror
Roger Luckhurst
52 Psycho as the Jewish Mother of Modern Horror
Adam Lowenstein
53 Analysing Indigenous Horror: Some Thoughts and Approaches
Kali Simmons
54 Feminist and Post-Feminist Horror and Theory; Or, Horror Academy 4: Final Students
Ann Young
