Critical Approaches to Horror Comic Books : Red Ink in the Gutter (Paperback)

1. Introduction, Part I: Horror Comic Books in a Socio-Historical Context, 2. From Caligari to Wertham: When EC’s Horror Comics Feared for Their Own Survival, 3. “Men have Sentenced This Fen to Death”: Marvel’s Man-Thing and the Liberation Politics of the 1970s, 4. The Horrors Haunting the City of Joy: Analyzing the Traumas of the Counterinsurgency in City of Sorrows, 5. Spanish Creepy: Historical Amnesia in “Las mil caras de Jack el destripador", Part II: Race and Gender in Horror Comic Books, 6. “A Sight to Dream of, Not to Tell!”: Orality and Power in Marguerite Bennett and Ariela Kristantina’s InSEXts, 7. Gendered Violence and the Abject Body in Junji It?’s Tomie, 8. Lily Renee’s The Werewolf Hunter and the Secret Origin of Horror Comics, 9. The Wolf Only Needs to Find You Once: Food, Feeding, and Fear in the Dark Fairy Tales of Emily Carroll, 10. Borderland Werewolves: The Horrific Representation of the U.S.?Mexico Border in Feeding Ground, Part III: Adaptation in Horror Comic Books, 11. Flesh and Blood: Zombies, Vampires, and George A. Romero’s Transmedia Expansion of the Dead, 12. An Alien World: A Comic Book Adaptation of The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, 13. Horror Transformed: Tanabe Gou’s Manga Adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft, 14. Mutant Gothic: Marvel’s Mainstreaming of Horror in Uncanny X-Men, 15. Franken-Castle: Monster Hunters, Monstrous Masculinities, and the Punisher, Part IV: Horror Comic Books and Philosophy, 16. Dylan Dog’s Nightmares: The Unheimlich Experience of the Doppelganger in Dylan Dog’s World, 17. Messages of Death: Haunted Media in “Kaine: Endorphins ? Between Life and Death”, 18. Heterotopia and Horror at Show’s End, 19. The Hell Economics of Zombillenium, Index