1 The Momo Challenge as Urban Legend

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Figures 7
4. Acknowledgements 9
5. Introduction: Folk Monsters and Monstrous Media 11
6. 1 The Momo Challenge as Urban Legend 33
7. 2 “Every Imaginable Invention of the Devil” 63
8. 3 The Forest and the Trees 81
9. 4 Mark Duplass as Mumblegore Serial Killer 103
10. 5 Monsters in the Forest 121
11. 6 A Mother’s Milk 145
12. 7 Documenting the Unheard 173
13. 8 Reimagining the Pontianak Myth in Malaysian Folk Horror 191
14. 9 An Uncommon Ancestor 217
15. 10 The Folk Horror “Feeling” 241
16. Works Cited 269
17. Mediagraphy 297
18. Index 303