Michele Brittany is the book review editor for the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and is the co-chair of the Ann Radcliffe Conference held in conjunction with Horror Writers Association's annual Stokercon. She lives in Glendale, Arizona.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: Horror Made in America

John Carpenter of Mars: Space Horror in the Films

of John Carpenter (Ben Kooyman)

The Cold, White Reproduction of the Same: A New Hypothesis

About John Carpenter's The Thing (Dario Altobelli)

Meteor Madness: Lovecraftian Horror and Consumerism

in the Battle for Small Town USA (Nicholas Diak)

"It (never actually) came from outer space": ­Earth-Origin

Threats in Space Horror Films (Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.)

Part Two: Time and Space in a Sea of ­Post-Modern Isolation

Nonknowledge and Inner Experience: A ­Post-Modern Rhetoric

of Space Horror (Gavin F. Hurley)

Out of Space-Out of Time: Looking at the Factors of Time

in Space Horror Movies (Juliane Schlag)

We're All Alone, Out Here: Isolation and Its Contribution

to Space Horror in Film (Janet Joyce Holden)

That Moon Is Romantic: Duncan Jones's Dark Fairy Tale (Adam M. Crowley)

Part Three: The Uncanny Body

The Architecture of ­Sci-Fi Body Horror: Mechanical

­Building-Bodies and Organic Invasion from Deep Space to the Anthropocene (Brenda S. Gardenour Walter)

Ghosts in the Machine: Emotion and Haunting in the Creation of the Irrational Robot (Casey Ratto)

Part Four: The Devil Made Me Betwixt and Between: Magic, Science and the Devil's Place in Outer Space (Andrew P. Williams)

Under the Influence: Undead Planets and Vampiric Dreamworlds in Outer Space (Simon Bacon)

Part Five: Play It Again or Rip It Off

A "family of displaced figures": Posthumanism and ­Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien Resurrection (1997) (Charles W. Reick)

Galaxies of Terror in a ­Knock-Off Universe: Atavism and the ­Rip-Off Body Horror of "Aliensploitation" Films (Jason Davis)

Leprechaun 4 and Jason X: Camp, Paracinema and the Postmodern Sequel (Kevin Chabot)

About the Contributors

Index