Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., is a professional actor and director whose previous books have covered topics ranging from Star Wars to Renaissance faires. He is a professor and chair of the theater department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction-Holding Darkness Within: Welcome to Hill House (Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.)

I. Jackson and Flanagan

The Hunters and the Haunted: The Changing Role

of Supernatural Investigation (Steve Marsden)

Hijacking Jackson: Adapting Mike Flanagan's Oculus (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns)

II. The House

It's Coming from Inside the House: Houses as Bodies

Without Organs (Matt Bernico)

A House Without Kindness: Hill House and the Phenomenology

of Horrific Space (Zachary Sheldon)

III. The Trauma

Some Things Can't Be Told: Gothic Trauma (Jeanette A. Laredo)

Recovery from Trauma in Post-9/11 Horror/Terror of Mike Flanagan's Oeuvre (Aaron K.H. Ho)

Education, Praxis and Healing (Elizabeth Laura Yomantas)

"A House Is Like a Body": Processes of Grief and Trauma (Dana Jeanne Keller)

IV. The Haunted

Mike Flanagan's ­Mold-Centric The Haunting of Hill House (Dawn Keetley)

Where the Heart Is (Alex Link)

The Future Isn't What It Used to Be: Hauntology, Grief

and Lost Futures (Melissa A. Kaufler)

Ghosts of Future Past: Spatial and Temporal Intersections (Adam Daniel)

V. Gender and Queering

Red Room, Red Womb: Phantom Feminism (Elsa M. Carruthers)

The Horrific Feminine: Terrifying Women (Camille S. Alexander)

Haunted Families, Queer Temporalities and the Horrors

of Normativity (Emily E. Roach)

VI. Comparative Hauntings

"Came Back Haunted": International Horror Film Conventions (Thomas Britt)

The Beloved Haunting of Hill House: An Examination

of Monstrous Motherhood (Rhonda Jackson Joseph)

The Madwoman in the Parlor: Motherhood and the Ghost

of Mental Disorder in Hill House and Hereditary (Maria Giakaniki)

Family Remains: Family Bonds Against the Paranormal

in The Haunting of Hill House and Supernatural (Melania Paszek)

"They Never Believe Me": Discourses of Belief in Hill House

and #Me Too (Brandon R. Grafius)

VII. Horror Makers on The Haunting of Hill House

A Ghost Is a Wish Your Heart Makes (Christa Carmen)

The Screaming Meemies Resurrected (Angie Martin)

What Really Walks There? (Tim Waggoner)

Spirits and Mediums: Adapting Jackson (Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.)

Gothic Storytelling (John Palisano)

About the Contributors

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