Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 3
6. Part 1 Tradition, Inc.
7. 1 Bits and Pieces 39
8. 2 Simply Sara and the Art of Hominess 67
9. 3 Fairytale as Fuck 86
10. 4 Folkloresque at Work 113
11. Part 2 Folkloresque Worlds
12. 5 Fictitious Folklore and World Making in Popular Culture 137
13. 6 Local Cosmologies, the Folkloresque, and the Fantastic in the Japanese Himukaizer Tokusatsu Action Hero Media Mix 155
14. Part 3 The Horror of the Folkloresque
15. 7 Monstrous Longings in the Age of Insurrection 173
16. 8 From Jacob Grimm to the White Witch of Devil’s End 194
17. 9 “Vernacular Wolf-Men” 209
18. Part 4 Folkloresque Beliefs
19. 10 Can Such Things Be? 231
20. 11 The Devil You Know 251
21. 12 Atlantis 270
22. Part 5 Reference, Replication, Recursion
23. 13 Monk, Greeley, Ward, and Twain 295
24. 14 Nothing Is Original 312
25. Index 339
26. About the Authors 357