Critical Readings on Hammer Horror Films (Paperback, 1)

Introduction

Part I: Hammer Horror before (and Beyond) Horror

1. The Mystery of the Mary Celeste ? Hammer’s First Horror

2. The Quatermass AnXiety and the Evil Within: Re-emerging Victorian Ethos in Post-War Science-Fiction Narratives

3. Hammer Studio’s Captain Clegg and the Genre Legacy of Swashbuckling Gothic Horror

4. I Bette you I’m a Great Mother: Middle-Aged Women and Grotesque Maternity

Part II: The Golden Age of Horror

5- ‘A Sickness partly Spiritual, partly Physical’: Monster, Savant, Gender and Class in The Brides of Dracula (1960)

6. “Give Me a Skin for Dancing In”: Female Grotesquery and Desire in The Witches (1966)

7. Children of the Night: Vampiric Blood Lines, Reproduction, and Queer Futurity in Hammer Horror’s Karnstein Trilogy

8. Let Horror Speak: Theodicy, Eschatology, and Rebellion in Hammer’s Dracula and Frankenstein Films

9. House of Horror: Domestic Architecture and Eco-Gothic Slippage in The Reptile (1966) and Children of the Full Moon (1980)

Part III: The Horror of Decadence and Resurrection

10. Sinking Masculinity in Hammer’s Cycle of Mummies

11. The Sun Has Finally Set: Hammer House of Horror as Postimperial Provincial Horror

12. The Kick and/or the Crucifix: The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires and the Kung Fu Craze of 1970s

13. Postmodernity and Elevated Horror in The Lodge (2019)

Part IV: Interviews

14. The Satanist: An interview with David Wickes

15. Visitor from the Grave: An interview with actor Kathryn Scott

16. Revenge of the Runners: An interview with Brian Reynolds

17. Run Like Hell: An interview with Hammer Film Production runner Phil Campbell

18. Doctor Jekyll ? An Interview with Joe Stephenson