The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature

Front Matter ....Pages i-xx
 Introduction  (Kevin Corstorphine)....Pages 1-17
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 Bhayānaka (Horror and the Horrific) in Indian Aesthetics  (Dhananjay Singh)....Pages 21-31
 Horror in the Medieval North: The Troll  (Ármann Jakobsson)....Pages 33-43
 The Horror Genre and Aspects of Native American Indian Literature  (Joy Porter)....Pages 45-60
 Vampires, Shape-Shifters, and Sinister Light: Mistranslating Australian Aboriginal Horror in Theory and Literary Practice  (Naomi Simone Borwein)....Pages 61-75
 Men, Women, and Landscape in American Horror Fiction  (Dara Downey)....Pages 77-89
 Blood Flows Freely: The Horror of Classic Fairy Tales  (Lorna Piatti-Farnell)....Pages 91-100
 Turning Dark Pages and Transacting with the Inner Self: Adolescents’ Perspectives of Reading Horror Texts  (Phil Fitzsimmons)....Pages 101-112
 Horror and Damnation in Medieval Literature  (Andrew J. Power)....Pages 113-126
 The Jacobean Theater of Horror  (Tony Perrello)....Pages 127-138
 “A Mass of Unnatural and Repulsive Horrors”: Staging Horror in Nineteenth-Century English Theater  (Sarah A. Winter)....Pages 139-154
 Horror in Gothic Chapbooks  (Franz J. Potter)....Pages 155-163
 “We Stare and Tremble”: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Horror Novels  (Natalie Neill)....Pages 165-179
 “The Horror! The Horror!”: Tracing Horror in Modernism from Conrad to Eliot  (Matthias Stephan)....Pages 181-190
 Global Horror: Pale Horse, Pale Rider  (David Punter)....Pages 191-201
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 Vampires: Reflections in a Dark Mirror  (Wendy Fall)....Pages 205-217
 Zombie Fictions  (Anya Heise-von der Lippe)....Pages 219-231
 “You Don’t Think I’m Like Any Other Boy. That’s Why You’re Afraid”: Haunted/Haunting Children from The Turn of the Screw to Tales of Terror  (Chloé Germaine Buckley)....Pages 233-247
 Discussing Dolls: Horror and the Human Double  (Sandra Mills)....Pages 249-255
 “They Have Risen Once: They May Rise Again”: Animals in Horror Literature  (Bernice M. Murphy)....Pages 257-273
 Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Woods?: Deep Dark Forests and Literary Horror  (Elizabeth Parker)....Pages 275-290
 Disability and Horror  (Alan Gregory)....Pages 291-299
 Monstrous Machines and Devilish Devices  (Gwyneth Peaty)....Pages 301-312
 “And Send Her Well-Dos’d to the Grave”: Literary Medical Horror  (Laura R. Kremmel)....Pages 313-326
 Imperial Horror and Terrorism  (Johan Höglund)....Pages 327-337
 Postmodern Literary Labyrinths: Spaces of Horror Reimagined  (Katharine Cox)....Pages 339-352
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 Evolutionary Study of Horror Literature  (Mathias Clasen)....Pages 355-363
 Transgressive Horror and Politics: The Splatterpunks and Extreme Horror  (Aalya Ahmad)....Pages 365-376
 Boundary Crossing and Cultural Creation: Transgressive Horror and Politics of the 1990s  (Coco d’Hont)....Pages 377-389
 “Maggot Maladies”: Origins of Horror as a Culturally Proscribed Entertainment  (Sarah Cleary)....Pages 391-406
 The Mother of All Horrors: Medea’s Infanticide in African American Literature  (Christina Dokou)....Pages 407-421
 Horror, Race, and Reality  (Ordner W. Taylor III)....Pages 423-432
 Postcolonial Horror  (Tabish Khair)....Pages 433-439
 Conceptualizing Varieties of Space in Horror Fiction  (Andrew Hock Soon Ng)....Pages 441-456
 Toward an Acoustics of Literary Horror  (Matt Foley)....Pages 457-468
 Hesitation Marks: The Fantastic and the Satirical in Postmodern Horror  (Laura Findlay)....Pages 469-482
 “It’s Alive!” New Materialism and Literary Horror  (Susan Yi Sencindiver)....Pages 483-497
 Horror “After Theory”  (Lyle Enright)....Pages 499-509
Back Matter ....Pages 511-534