Introduction: Theology and Horror

Brandon R. Grafius and John W. Morehead

Section One: Horrifying Foundations

Chapter 1 Consider the Yattering: The Infernal Order and the Religious Imagination in Real Time Douglas E. Cowan

Chapter 2 The Theological Origins of Horror Steve A. Wiggins

Chapter 3 Mysterium Horrendum: Exploring Otto's Concept of the Numinous in Stoker, Machen, and Lovecraft Jack Hunter

Section Two: Christianizing the Monster

Chapter 4 Priests, Secrets, and Holy Water: All I Ever Learned About Catholicism I Learned from Horror Films Karr¿ Shimabukuro

Chapter 5 "We Have to Stop the Apocalypse!": Pre- Millennial (Mis)Representations of Revelation and Eschaton in Horror Cinema Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.

Chapter 6 Gnostic Terror: Subverting the Narrative of Horror Alyssa J. Beall

Section Three: Paranormal World, Monstrous History

Chapter 7 A Longing for Reconciliation: The Ghost Story as Demand for Corporeal and Terrestrial Justice Joshua Wise

Chapter 8 Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?: Two Models of Christian Theological Engagement with Lycanthropy Michael A. Hammett

Chapter 9 Endings that Never Happen: Otherness, Indecent Theology, Apocalypse, & Zombies Jessi Knippel

Section Four: Readings in Theology and the Horror Film

Chapter 10 "Do I Look Like Someone Who Cares What God Thinks?": Narrative Ambiguity, Religion, and the Afterlife in the Hellraiser Franchise Mark Richard Adams

Chapter 11 Ferocious Marys and Dark Alessas: The Portrayal of Religious Matriarchies in Silent Hill Amy Beddows

Chapter 12 "They Say with Jason Death Comes First/ He'll Make Hell a Place on Earth": The Functions of Hell in New Line's Jason Sequels Wickham Clayton