Machine generated contents note: Introduction: "The Body Is His Book" -- 1. Mortal Coils: The Comic-Horror Double Helix -- 2. Muse of Horror: Traditions of Dreadful Imagining -- 3. Macabre Aesthetics -- 4. Anxiety of Organism -- 5. Acquaintance with the Night: America and the Muse of Horror -- 6. Dark Carnival: The Esoterics of Celebration -- 7. Languishment: The Wounded Hero -- 8. Sinister Loci: The Properties of Terror -- 9. Apotropaion and the Hideous Obscure -- 10. Soul at Zero: Dark Epiphanies
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-251) and index
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