No. 17 – Horror (2002)

Edited by Steffen Hantke

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Table of Contents

• Shudder As We Think: Reflections on Horror and/or Criticism, pp 1-9
  Steffen Hantke
• Bela Lugosi’s Dead and I’m Not Feeling Too Good Either: The Politics and Aesthetics of Gothic Club Dancing, pp 10-31
  Tricia Henry Young
• Fear Unknowable: Le Fanu’s Contribution to the Literary Fantastic, pp 32-51
  Mark Wegley
• Domesticity as Horror: George A. Romero’s Jack’s Wife, pp 52-67
  Tony Williams
• At the Hong Kong Hop: Mr. Vampire Spawns Bloodsucking Genre, pp 68-76
  Michael Hoover & Lisa Odham Stokes
  Andrew Hoberek
• Haitian Voodoo as a Postcolonial Symptom, pp 77-92
  Ken Gelder
• Are We Not Men? The Horror of Eugenics in The Island of Dr. Moreau, pp 93-108
  David Kirby
• Biohorror/Biotech, pp 109-129
  Eugene Thacker
• There Are No Limits: Splatterpunk, Clive Barker, and the Body in-extremis, pp 130-150
  Jay McRoy
• A Manifesto for Werewolves: What the Cyborgs Didn’t Tell Us, pp 151-175
  Chantal Bourgault
• Meeting Monsters, Loving Men: Abjection and Community in Peter Straub’s Ghost Story and Stephen King’s “The Breathing Method,” pp 176-199
  Kate Sullivan
• Writing about On Writing, pp 200-209
  Sylvia Kelso
• Judith Hawkes’ Julian’s House and the Possibilities of the Postmodern Ghost Story, pp 210-234
  Susan Poznar
• Re-vamping the Gothic: Representations of the Gothic Heroine in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus, pp 235-256
  Rebecca Munford
• Guerilla Vamping: Vampyros, Lesbos, the Becoming-Woman of Women and the Unravelling of the Male Gaze, pp 257-270
  David Annandale
• Narrative Mortality: The “Fragmegrated” Corpse of the Horror Anthology Film, pp 271-301
  David Scott Diffrient
• Paradoxa Interview with Kathe Koja, pp 302-313
  Steffen Hantke
• Paradoxa Interview with Graham Joyce, pp 314-322
  Liz Williams
• Paradoxa Interview with Adam Simon, pp 323-333
  Steven Schneider
• Review of Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters and The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature, pp 334-337
  Paul Di Filippo
• Review of 20th Century Horror, pp 338-342
  Kim Newman
• Review of Psycho Paths: Tracking the Serial Killer Through Contemporary American Film and Fiction, pp 343-345
  Steffen Hantke
• Review of False Positive, pp 348-353
  Michael Filas
• Review of Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-Garde, pp 354-359
  Steffen Hantke
• Review of A Skin for Dancing In: Possession, Witchcraft and Voodoo in Film, pp 360-367
  Reynold Humphries
• Two Gore Auteurs: Reviews of Wes Craven’s The Art of Horror, and Herschell Gordon Lewis’s Godfather of Gore, pp 368-371
  Philip L. Simpson
• Review of Hitchcock and Art, pp 372-374
  Christopher Morris
• Review of At the Foot of the Story Tree, pp 375-380
  Michael Arnzen
• Review of Dark Dreamers:Facing the Masters of Fear, pp. 381-386
  Steffen Hantke