Contributor
Hutchison, Sharla, 1970- editor.
ImprintJefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]
Descriptionviii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note:Introduction / Sharla Hutchison and Rebecca A. Brown -- "She has a parasite soul!" The pathologization of the gothic monster as parasitic hybrid in Bram Stoker's Dracula, Richard Marsh's The beetle and Arthur Conan Doyle's The parasite / Emilie Taylor-Brown -- Marie Corelli's Ziska: a gothic Egyptian ghost story / Sharla Hutchison -- The queer God Pan: Terror and apocalypse, reimagined / Mark De Cicco -- Attack of the Mushroom People: Ishirô Honda's Matango and William Hope Hodgson's "The voice in the night" / Anthony Camara -- Through the eyes of the monster: Angela Carter's "The lady of the House of Love" / Jameela F. Dallis -- Re-vamping the early 1960s: Freakish vampires and monstrous teens in Richard Laymon's The Traveling Vampire Show / Rebecca A. Brown -- Gothic commodification of the body and the modern literary serial killer in Child of God and American Psycho / Christopher Coughlin -- Rocking and reeling through the doors of miscreation: Disequilibrium in Shirley Jackson's The haunting of Hill House / Susan Poznar -- "I think I am a monster": Helen Oyeyemis' White is for witching and the postmodern gothic / Bianca Tredennick -- "Madness and monstrosity": Notions of the gothic and sublime in comics adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft / Rebecca Janicker -- The monster of massification: A Serbian film / L. Andrew Cooper -- "Bears that dance, bears that don't": Aggression, civilization and the gothic bear / Julie Wilhelm and Steven J. Zani.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"Zombies, vampires and ghosts feature prominently in nearly all forms of entertainment in the 21st century, including popular fiction, film, comics, television and computer games. But these creatures have been vital to the entertainment industry since the best-seller books of a century and half ago. Monsters don't just invade popular culture, they help sell popular culture"-- Provided by publisher.
