Table of Contents
Introduction: Haunting Boundaries
Brandy Ball Blake and L. Andrew Cooper
Monster Culture (Seven Theses)
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
1
11
Excerpts from Frankenstein 35
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein: A Feminist Critique of Science
Anne K. Mellor
43
George Romero’s Zombie Films: A Plague of Meaning 55
L. Andrew Cooper and Brandy Ball Blake
Excerpts from World War Z 63
Max Brooks
Excerpts from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
79
Strange Transformations: John Landis’s An American Werewolf
in London95
L. Andrew Cooper and Brandy Ball Blake
The Company of Wolves
Angela Carter
101
Excerpts from Dracula 113
Bram Stoker
Parasites and Perverts: An Introduction to Gothic Monstrosity
123
Judith Halberstam
Excerpt from Gothic Realities: The Impact of Horror Fiction on
Modern Culture 141
L. Andrew Cooper
Civilized Vampires Versus Savage Werewolves: Race and Ethnicity
in the Twilight Series 155
Natalie Wilson
The Horrors of Race and American History: Candyman173
L. Andrew Cooper and Brandy Ball Blake
Excerpts from The Uncanny (1919)
Sigmund Freud
179
Evil Dolls: The Child’s Play and Puppet Master Series
L. Andrew Cooper and Brandy Ball Blake
Serial Killers: From Jack the Ripper to Aileen Wuornos 203
L. Andrew Cooper and Brandy Ball Blake
Movie Psychos and Slashers: From Norman Bates to Freddy
Krueger211
L. Andrew Cooper and Brandy Ball Blake
Excerpts from Killing Monsters
Gerard Jones
Major Assignments
Filmography
Works Cited
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