Monsters and Monstrosity from the Fin de Siecle to the Millennium

Sharla Hutchison, a Professor of English at Fort Hays State University, USA has authored critical articles on Gothic fiction, Modern literature, and women writers. She lives in Hays, Kansas. Rebecca A. Brown teaches college in Seattle, USA. She enjoys reading and writing about children in horror films and monsters in picturebooks.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Introduction (Sharla Hutchison and Rebecca A. Brown)

Part I: Forgotten Monsters and Social Unrest

“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)

Part II: Monstrous Violations of Private Life

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)

Part III: Millennial Monsters

“I think I am a monster”: Helen Oyeyemi’s 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)

About the Contributors

Index