Introduction 1. Monstrous adaptations: an introduction - Richard J. Hand and Jay McRoy Part I: From page to scream: literary adaptation and horror cinema 2. Paradigms of metamorphosis and transmutation: Thomas Edison's Frankenstein and John Barrymore's Jekyll and Hyde - Richard J. Hand 3. Painting the life out of her: aesthetic integration and disintegration in Jean Epstein's La Chute de la maison Usher - Guy Crucianelli 4. The unfilmable? H. P.
Lovecraft and the cinema - Julian Petley 5. Imperfect geometry: identity and culture in Clive Barker's 'The Forbidden' and Bernard Rose's Candyman - Brigid Cherry Part II: Re-imaginings and re-articulations: thematic adaptation in contemporary horror cinema 6. Out from the realist underground; or, the Baron of Blood visits Cannes: recursive and self-reflexive patterns in David Cronenberg's Videodrome and eXistenZ - Steffen Hantke 7. 'These Children That You Spit On': horror and generic hybridity - Andy W. Smith 8. 'Our Reaction Was Only Human': monstrous becomings in Abel Ferrara's Body Snatchers - Jay McRoy Part III: From avant garde to exploitation: cinematic experiments as monstrous adaptation 9. Adapting the occult: horror and the avant garde in the cinema of Stan Brakhage and Ken Jacob - Marianne Shaneen 10. The Gorgon: adapting classical myth as gothic romance - I.
Q. Hunter 11. Marion Crane dies twice - Murray Pomerance Part IV: Displacements and border crossings: horror cinema and transcultural adaptation 12. Adapting legends: urban legends and their adaptation in horror cinema - Mikel J. Koven 13. Fulcanelli as a vampiric Frankenstein and Jesus as his vampiric Monster: the Frankenstein and Dracula myths in Guillermo del Toro's Cronos - Brad O'Brien 14. Gothic horrors, family secrets, and the patriarchal imperative: the early horror films of Mario Bava - Reynold Humphries 15. 'In the Church of the Poison Mind': adapting the metaphor of psychopathology to look back at the mad, monstrous 80s - Ruth Goldberg 16.
'Everyone Will Suffer' 'e" national identity and the spirit of subaltern vengeance in Nakata Hideo's Ringu and Gore Verbinski's The Ring - Linnie Blake Index.