The Politics of Horror

Damien K. Picariello is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina Sumter, USA. He is also the author of Politics in Gotham: The Batman Universe and Political Thought (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

1. "The American Nightmare: Graveyard Voters, Demon Sheep, Devil Women, and Lizard People".- 2. "Horror, Crisis, and Control: Tales of Facing Evils".- "We're Witches and We're Hunting You: Matriarchy and Misogyny in Conjure Wife".- 4. "The Democratic Impulse in Post-Apocalyptic Films".- 5. "Through a Glass Darkly: The Dimensionality and Inadequacy of Political Fear in Stephen King's The Stand".- 6. "The Monsters Among Us: Realism and Constructivism in Vampire: The Masquerade".- 7. "Anxiety in Suburbia: The Politics of Gaming in Neighbourhood 3: Requisition of Doom".- 8. "The Exorcist and a New Kind of American Television Horror".- 9. "Reality TV as Horror: Psychological Terror and Physical Torture".- 10. "Zombie Komiks in a Cacique Democracy: Patay Kung Patay's Undead Revolution".- 11. "...Just as You Will Do to One Another!": Colonialism that Consumes Itself in Warren Publications' Creepy".- 12. "Witches in the South: Past, Present, and in Comics".- 13. "Bring Him the blood of the outlanders!": Children of the Corn as Farm Crisis Horror.- 14. "mother! and the Horror of Environmental Abuse".- 15. "Let the Bodies (of Water) Hit the Floor: Development and Exploitation in John Boorman's Deliverance".- 16. "The Mayor of Shark City": Political Power in Jaws".- 17. "Fear of Founding from Plato to Poltergeist".- 18. "Post-Racial Lies and Fear of the Historical-Political Boomerang in Jordan Peele's Get Out and Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad".- 19. "'The Mother Who Eats Her Own': The Politics of Motherhood in Irish Horror".- 20. "Frankenstein's Dream and the Politics of Death".