Introduction: Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Subashish Bhattacharjee

Part 1: National Traumas and Repressions

Chapter 1: The Ghost of Imperialism: Japan's Forgotten Horrors in the Shadow of Sadako. Calum Waddell

Chapter 2: A Modern Monster: Shin-Godzilla and its Place in the Discourse Concerning 3.11 and National Resilience. Barbara Greene

Chapter 3: Cultural Trauma, Cross-Flow of Aesthetics, and the Child: A Comparison between Ringu and The Ring. Bipasha Mandal

Chapter 4: Space, Smoke and Mirrors: The Frightening Ambiguity of Ju-On: Origins (2020). Daniel Krátký

Chapter 5: "The Dead Speak: Horror and the Modern Ghost in Eiji ¿tsuka's The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. Megan Negrych

Part 2: Posthuman Monsters and Grotesque Bodies

Chapter 6: "Love in a Chair": Industrialization and Exploitation Edogawa Rampo's "The Human Chair" and Junji Ito's Manga Adaptation. Leonie Rowland

Chapter 7: The Monstrous Feminine in Mari Asato's J-Horror Films. Canela Ailén Rodriguez Fontao and Mariana Zárate

Chapter 8: Composite Corpses and Viruses of Viewing: J-Horror as Film and Media Theory. William Carroll

Chapter 9: Spiral into Samsara in Junji Ito's J-Horror Masterpiece Uzumaki. Wayne Stein

Chapter 10: Controlling the Inner Demon: Theological Approaches on Devilman. Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

Part 3: Cultural Flows

Chapter 11: The Transpacific Complicity of J-Horror and Hollywood. Seán Hudson

Chapter 12: Revisiting the Orphan Girl Narrative in Rule of Rose. Ingrid Butler

Chapter 13: Idol Culture and Gradations of Reality in Japanese Found Footage Horror Films. Dennin Ellis

Chapter 14: Obscure, Reveal, Repeat: Hidden Worlds and Uncertain Truths in K¿ji Shiraishi's The Curse and Occult. Lindsay Nelson

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