Fear and Nature

Christy Tidwell is Associate Professor of English and Humanities at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. She is the coeditor of Gender and Environment in Science Fiction. Carter Soles is Associate Professor of Film Studies at SUNY Brockport. He has published a number of journal articles and book chapters in the fields of film studies and ecomedia.

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Introduction: Ecohorror in the Anthropocene

Christy Tidwell and Carter Soles



Part 1: Expanding Horror

1. Tentacular Ecohorror and the Agency of Trees in Algernon Blackwood’s “The Man Whom the Trees Loved” and Lorcan Finnegan’s Without Name

Dawn Keetley

2. Spiraling Inward and Outward: Junji Ito’s Uzumaki and the Scope of Ecohorror

Christy Tidwell

3. “The Hand of Deadly Decay”: The Rotting Corpse, America’s Religious Tradition, and the Ethics of Green Burial in Poe’s “The Colloquy of Monos and Una”

Ashley Kniss



Part 2: Haunted and Unhaunted Landscapes

4. The Death of Birdsong, the Birdsong of Death: Algernon Charles Swinburne and the Horror of Erosion

Keri Stevenson

5. An Unhaunted Landscape: The Anti-Gothic Impulse in Ambrose Bierce’s “A Tough Tussle”

Chelsea Davis

6. The Extinction-Haunted Salton Sea in The Monster That Challenged the World

Bridgitte Barclay



Part 3: The Ecohorror of Intimacy

7. From the Bedroom to the Bathroom: Stephen King’s Scatology and the Emergence of an Urban Environmental Gothic

Marisol Cortez

8. “This Bird Made an Art of Being Vile”: Ontological Difference and Uncomfortable Intimacies in Stephen Gregory’s The Cormorant

Brittany R. Roberts

9. The Shape of Water and Post-pastoral Ecohorror

Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann



Part 4: Being Prey, Being Food

10. Superpig Blues: Agribusiness Ecohorror in Bong Joon-ho’s Okja

Kristen Angierski

11. Zoo: Television Ecohorror On and Off the Screen

Sharon Sharp

12. Naturalizing White Supremacy in The Shallows

Carter Soles



Contributors

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