Youth Horror Television and the Question of Fear

Kyle Brett is adjunct professor at Lafayette College. Ethan Roblesis an independent scholar.

Section One: Youth Horror and What Matters to Adults

Chapter One: “And Whenever They Catch You, They Will Kill You”: Martin Rosen’s Watership Down (1978) as Horror

Brandon R. Grafius

Chapter Two: “The Sooner We’re All One Big Happy Family, the Better”: Children of the Stones as a Cautionary Tale

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

Chapter Three:Abject Horror in Courage the Cowardly Dog

Katherine Ridolfi-Lizza

Section Two: Youth Horror and Imagining Differences

Chapter Four: Green Men, Literate Worms, and Swamp Monsters—an Ecocritical Reading of Select Goosebumps Episodes

Barbara Katharina Reschenhofer

Chapter Five:Everywhere and Nowhere:Pastiche and the Uncanny in Courage the Cowardly Dog

Kimberly Plaksin

Chapter Six: Developing in the Dark: Confronting Fears through Supportive Storytelling in Nickelodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Michael Jacob

Section Three: Youth Horror Reaches Its Adulthood

Chapter Seven: “I Call This Story the Tale of . . .”: The Hosts and Narrators of Children’s Horror Television

Merinda Staubli

Chapter Eight: “We’ve Been Teenagers Forever”: Reference and Self-Reflexivity in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated

Stacey Anh Baran

Chapter Nine: “Don’t Let Your Parents Watch It Alone!”: Cautionary Tales and Family Horror in R. L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour

Filipa Antunes