Introduction. Ian Conrich
Industry, Technology and the New Media
1. Dark Rides, Hybrid Machines and the Horror Experience. Angela Ndalianis
(University of Melbourne, Australia)
2. High Concept Thrills and Chills: The Horror Blockbuster. Stacey Abbott
(Roehampton University, UK)
3. Bringing it All Back Home: Horror Cinema and Video Culture. Linda Badley
(Middle Tennessee State University, US)

Audiences, Fans, and Consumption
4. Stalking the Web: Celebration, Chat and Horror Film Marketing on the
Internet. Brigid Cherry (St Mary's College, UK)
5. Attending Horror Film Festivals and Conventions: Liveness, Subcultural Capital
and "Flesh-and-Blood Genre Communities". Matt Hills (University of
Cardiff, UK)
6. Trashing the Academy: Taste, Excess and an Emerging Politics of Cinematic
Style. Jeffrey Sconce (Northwestern University, US)
7. Terrifying Toys and Tie-ins: The Material Culture of Horror Cinema. Ian Conrich (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)

Manufacture and Design
8. They're Here!: Special Effects in the Horror Cinema of the 1970s and 1980s. Ernest
Mathijs (University of British Columbia, Canada)
9. Making Up Monsters: Set and Costume Design in Horror Films. Tamao
Nakahara (University of California, Berkeley, US)
10. Culture Wars: Some New Trends in Art Horror. Joan Hawkins (University of
Indiana, US)

Boundaries of Horror
11. “Parts is Parts”: Pornography, Splatter Films and the Politics of Corporeal
Disintegration. Jay Mcroy (University of Wisconsin, Parkside, US)
12. Nazi Horror Films. Julian Petley (Brunel University, UK)
13. Better the Devil You Know: Antichrists at the Millennium. Mick Broderick
(Murdoch University, Australia)
14. Feminine Boundaries: Adolescence, Witchcraft and Magic in Contemporary
Cinema and Television. Estella Tincknell (University of the West of England)
15. Impaired Visions: the Cultural and Cinematic Politics of Blindness in the Horror
Film. Angela Marie Smith (University of Utah, US)
Notes
Bibliography
Index