Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. Acknowledgments xii
6. Introduction: The Many Castles 1
7. Part 1 The Early Castle
8. 1 When Strangers Marry: Film Noir as Mediated Gothic 21
9. 2 Gender in William Castle’s Westerns 41
10. Part 2 The Gimmick Cycle
11. 3 He Earned Our Forgiveness: William Castle and American Movie Showmanship 57
12. 4 Collective Screams: William Castle and the Gimmick Film 76
13. 5 Ghost Show Ballyhoo: Castle’s Macabre Will Scare You to Death 99
14. 6 How to View 13 Ghosts 115
15. 7 Chaos Made Flesh: Mr. Sardonicus (1961) and the Mask as Transformative Device 137
16. Part 3 Castle, Authorship, and Genre
17. 8 A Sick Mind in Search of a Monstrous Body: William Castle and the Emergence of Psychological Horror in the 1960s 153
18. 9 “What a Wicked Game to Play?” Playfulness, Generic Hybridity, and Cult Appeal in Castle’s 1960s Films 171
19. 10 “Where Did Our Love Go?” The Case of William Castle’s The Night Walker 189
20. Part 4 Castle’s Legacy
21. 11 Homo/cidal: William Castle’s 1960s Killer Queers 219
22. 12 The Cinematic Pandemonium of William Castle and John Waters 237
23. Index 255