Part I: Loss and the Child: Grief and Endangered Youth Chapter 1. Horror at the Crossroads: Mapping the Child's Grief in Pan's Labyrinth (2006) Lindsey Scott Chapter 2. "We Can Survive This": An Examination of Loss and Grief in Juan Antonio Bayona's El orfanato ( The Orphanage ) (2007) Erica Joan Dymond Chapter 3. Elevating Grief: Ari Aster's Hereditary (2018) and the A24 Horror Film Andrew Grossman and Todd K. Platts Part II: Loss and Gender: Grief and Motherhood/Womanhood Chapter 4. To Make You Feel My Love: Jennifer Kent's The Babadook (2014), Motherhood, and Loss Rebecca L. Willoughby Chapter 5. The Myth of the Natural Woman: Horror and Grief in Ari Aster's Midsommar (2019) Aspen Taylor Ballas Part III: Loss and National Identity: Grief and History Chapter 6.

O Father, Where Art Thou?: Grief and Cannibal Culture in Jorge Michel Grau's Somos lo que hay ( We Are What We Are ) (2010) Megan DeVirgilis Chapter 7. Sadness is Rebellion: The Ontopolitics of Queer Loss in Mladen dordevic's zivot i smrt porno bande ( The Life and Death of a Porno Gang )(2009) Andrija Filipovic Chapter 8. The Grieving Dead: Haunting and the Haunted in The Spierig Brothers' Winchester (2018) Racheal Harris Part IV: Loss and The Known World: Grief and Annihilation Chapter 9. "No One Will Miss It": Lars Von Trier's Antichrist (2009) and Melancholia (2011) and the World-Without-Us Michael Brown.