Jamey Heit is the co-founder and CEO of Essay Assay, Inc., an automated assessment company. An active researcher and writer in cultural studies, he teaches humanities courses online at Walden University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction

1. The Aesthetic of Evil

DANIEL A. FORBES

2. The Devil Made Me Do It! The Devil in 1960s-1970s Horror Film

ANTOINETTE F. WINSTEAD

3. Frankenstein's Legacy: The Mad Scientist Remade

KRISTINE LARSEN

4. Focus on the Family: Good and Evil Vampires in the Twilight Saga

A.J. GRANT

5. The Dichotomy of the Great Mother Archetype in Disney Heroines and Villainesses

SARAH LYNNE BOWMAN

6. Exploring the Relay Gaze in Hollywood Cinema: Serial Killers and the Women Who Hunt Them

SARAH LAFFERTY

7. Wanting the White Witch

BRYAN DOVE

8. Paradise Inverted: Philip Pullman's Use of High Fantasy and Epic Poetry to Portray Evil in His Dark Materials

E. QUINN

9. Sim Evil: Avatars and the Ethical Game Mechanic

KELLY KELLEWAY

10. Making Modern Evil: Terrorism, Torture, and the Creation of Evil in 24

MICHAEL J. LEWIS

11. No Laughing Matter: The Joker as a Nietzschean Critique of Morality

JAMEY HEIT

12. I Am Your Father: The Villain and the Future Self

NATHANIEL VAN YPEREN

13. Hearts of Darkness: Voldemort and Iago, with a Little Help from Their Friends

KEN ROTHMAN

Epilogue
About the Contributors
Index