The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature

1. Introduction

Kevin Corstorphine

Part I: The Origins and Evolution of Literary Horror

2. Bhayanaka (Horror and the Horrific) in Indian Aesthetics

Dhananjay Singh

3. Horror in the Medieval North: The Troll

Ármann Jakobsson

4. The Horror Genre and Aspects of Native American Indian Literature

Joy Porter

5. Vampires, Shape-Shifters, and Sinister Light: Mistranslating Australian Aboriginal Horror in Theory and Literary Practice

6. Men, Women, and Landscape in American Horror Fiction

7. Blood Flows Freely: The Horror of Classic Fairy Tales

8. Turning Dark Pages and Transacting with the Inner Self: Adolescents' Perspectives of Reading Horror Texts

Phil Fitzsimmons

9. Horror and Damnation in Medieval Literature

10. The Jacobean Theater of Horror

Tony Perrello

11. "A mass of unnatural and repulsive horrors": Staging Horror in Nineteenth-Century English Theatre

Sarah A. Winter

12. Horror in Gothic Chapbooks

13. "We stare and tremble": Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Horror Novels

Natalie Neill

14. "The Horror! The Horror!": Tracing Horror in Modernism from Conrad to Eliot

15. Global Horror: Pale Horse, Pale Rider

Part II: Themes of Literary Horror

16. Vampires: Reflections in a Dark Mirror

Wendy Fall

17. Zombie Fictions

Anya Heise-von der Lippe

18. "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

19. Discussing Dolls: Horror and the Human Double

20. "They Have Risen Once: They May Rise Again": Animals in Horror Literature

21. Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Woods?: Deep Dark Forests and Literary Horror

22. Disability and Horror

Alan Gregory

23. Monstrous Machines and Devilish Devices

24. "And Send her Well-Dos'd to the Grave": Literary Medical Horror

Laura R. Kremmel

25. Imperial Horror and Terrorism

Johan Höglund

Katharine Cox

Part III: Approaches to Literary Horror

27. Evolutionary Study of Horror Literature

28. Transgressive Horror and Politics: The Splatterpunks and Extreme Horror

Aalya Ahmad

29. Boundary Crossing and Cultural Creation: Transgressive Horror and Politics of the 1990s

30. "Maggot Maladies": Origins of Horror as a Culturally Proscribed Entertainment

Sarah Cleary

31. The Mother of All Horrors: Medea's Infanticide in African American Literature

Christina Dokou

32. Horror, Race, and Reality

Ordner W. Taylor, III

33. Postcolonial Horror

Tabish Khair

34. Conceptualizing Varieties of Space in Horror Fiction

Andrew Hock Soon Ng

35. Towards an Acoustics of Literary Horror

Matt Foley

36. Hesitation Marks: The Fantastic and The Satirical in Postmodern Horror

37. "It's Alive!" New Materialism and Literary Horror

Susan Yi Sencindiver

38. Horror "After Theory"

Lyle Enright