Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Introduction: Theorising the Victim 7
4. 1. Opening the Gate: Reconfiguring the Child Victim in Stranger Things 19
5. 2. Black Death: Black Victims in 1980s Teen Slashers 39
6. 3. Beyond Binaries : The Position of the Transgender Victim in Horror Narratives 61
7. 4. Through the Looking-Glass: The Gothic Victim in Jordan Peele’s Us 79
8. 5. Postmortem Victimhood: Necrovalue in Phantasm and Dead and Buried 95
9. 6. The Sad Killer : Perpetuating Spaces, Trauma and Violence within the Slasher Genre 113
10. 7. “If this is the last thing you see… that means I died” : A Taxonomy of Camera-Operating Victims in Found Footage Horror Films 133
11. 8. Victimhood and Rhetorical Dialectics within Clive Barker’s Faustian Fiction 153
12. 9. Pain Index, Plain Suffering and Blood Measure : A Victimology of Driving Safety Films, 1955–1975 171
13. 10. Biolithic Horror: Stone Victim/Victimisers in Resident Evil Village 191
14. 11. The Potential Victim: Horror Role-Playing Games and the Cruelty of Things 213
15. Bibliography 231
16. Filmography 247
17. Index 251