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Lexington Books horror studies

Part I: Frameworks and classics of twenty-first-century horror. Horror theory now : thinking about horror / Kevin orstophine ; Decadent feasts : aesthetics, ethics, and twenty-first-century prestige horror television / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ; From one extreme to another : horror cinema and censorship in the twenty-first century / Neil Jackson ; The recurrence and evolution of universal's classic monsters in twenty-first-century horror / M. Keith Booker ; The remixing (and ransacking) of Hill House: Surveying the spectral presence of Shirley Jackson in contemporary gothic fiction / Joan Passey

Part II: Media and consumption. Further notes towards a monster pedagogy / John Edgar Browning ; Sounding horror : ballads, ring shouts, and the power of music in black horror / Erik Steinskog ; The evolution of horror on stage / Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. ; Hauntify the world : new directions in video game horror / Gwyneth Peaty ; The evolution of horror and new media / Carlos Littles.

Part III: Recognition and evolution. The future of horror : evolution or revolution? / Carina Bissett ; Black Lives Matter (BLM) horror / Maisha Wester ; Indigenous horror in the twenty-first century / Jacob Floyd ; "Stepping out of the closet": the evolution of queer representation and tropes in twenty-first-century horror TV / Natasha C. Marchini ; Involution, adaptation, mutation : horror's disability dynamics / Angela M. Smith ; Sympathy for the Candyman : the politics of the past in supernatural horror / Brandon Grafius

Part IV: Evolving themes. The futures for folk horror / Mikel J. Koven ; The rise in ecohorror and ecogothic criticism / Teresa Fitzpatrick ; Undying earth : extinction romances in the age of anthropocene / Ian Fetters ; Fear of infection : negotiating between community and isolation in gothic contagion narratives / Laura R. Kremmel ; Chapter 21. The metal and the flesh : techno-liminalities, bio-subversion, and the enhanced super-body as a horror space / Lorna Piatti-Farnell.

Horror in mass media > History > 21st century.

Horror films > History and criticism.

Horror television programs > History and criticism.

Horror tales > History and criticism.