The Supernatural Cinema of Guillermo Del Toro: Critical Essays

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Table of Contents
Foreword (Doug Jones)
Introduction (John W. Morehead)
The Magical Spirituality of a Lapsed Catholic:  Atheism and Anticlericalism  (S. T. Joshi)
At the Mountains of Mexico: The Echoes and Intertexts of Lovecraft and Dunsany  (Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.)
Slime and Subtlety: Monsters in del Toro’s Spanish- Language Films  (Ann Davies)
Time Out of Joint: Traumatic Hauntings in the Spanish Civil War Films  (Karin Brown)
The Child Transformed by Monsters: The Monstrous Beauty of Childhood Trauma  (Jessica Balanzategui)
The Ambivalence of Creative Desire: Theogonic Myth and Monstrous Offspring  (Sidney L. Sondergard)
Henry’s Kids: Othered Children and Karloff ’s Frankenstein Monster  (John Kenneth Muir)
Where the Wild Things Are: Monsters and Children  (Alexandra West)
Bloodsucking Bugs: Horacio Quiroga and the Latin American Transformation of Vampires  (Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez)
The Birth of Fantasy: A Nietzschaen Reading of Pan’s Labyrinth  (Jack Collins)
Menstruation as Heroine’s Journey in Pan’s Labyrinth  (Richard Lindsay)
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