Introduction: The death and resurrection show: horror franchise cinema and the romanticization of cult / William Proctor and Marc McKenna
Building imaginary horror worlds: transfictional storytelling and the Universal monster franchise cycle / William Proctor
Section I: Slasher and post-slashers
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: a 'peculiar, erratic' franchise / Mark Bernard
If I were a Carpenter: prestige and authorship in the Halloween franchise / Murray Leeder
If Nancy doesn't wake up screaming: the Elm Street series as recurring nightmare / Steve Jones
Allowing 'Us just to LIVE there': atmosphere and audience evaluation of the Alien film series / Kate Egan
Section II: Millennial franchises
Cut-price creeps: the Blumhouse model of horror franchise management / Todd Platts
When the subtext becomes text: the Purge takes on the American nightmare / Stacey Abbott
Section III: Cult franchises
What film is your film like? negotiating authenticity in the distributive seriality of the Zombi Franchise / Mark McKenna
Horror heroine or symbolic sacrifice: defining the I spit on your grave franchise as horror / Sarah Cleary
Section IV: Complicating franchising
Seriality between the horror franchise and the horror anthology film
When is a franchise not a franchise: the case of let the right one in / Simon Bacon
'A match made in heaven (or hell)': franchise experiments between the horror film genre and virtual reality media (2014-2020) / Sara Thomas.