Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “The Body Is His Book”
1. Mortal Coils: The Comic-Horror Double Helix
2. The Muse of Horror: Traditions of Dreadful Imagining
3. Macabre Aesthetics
4. The Anxiety of Organism
5. Acquaintance with the Night: America and the Muse of Horror
6. Dark Carnival: The Esoterics of Celebration
7. Languishment: The Wounded Hero
8. Sinister Loci: The Properties of Terror
9. Apotropaion and the Hideous Obscure
10. The Soul at Zero: Dark Epiphanies
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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