Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vi
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. 1. Apprehension Engines: Defining a New Wave of Art-Horror Cinema 1
6. 2. “Slow,” “Smart,” “Indie,” “Prestige,” “Elevated”: Discursive Struggle for Cultural Distinction 27
7. 3. Grief, Mourning, and the Horrors of Familial Inheritance 68
8. 4. Horror by Gaslight: Epistemic Violence and Ambivalent Belonging 102
9. 5. Beautiful, Horrible Desolation: Landscape in Post-Horror Cinema 142
10. 6. Queer Ethics and the Urban Ruin-Porn Landscape: The Horrors of Monogamy in It Follows 181
11. 7. Existential Dread and the Trouble with Transcendence 213
12. Selected Bibliography 245
13. Index 260