Table of Contents
Prologue xiii
Part 1
Chapter 1 Carole's Story: It's Alive! 5
Chapter 2 Cauda Equina 13
Chapter 3 Carole's Story: Attack of the Fifty-Foot Woman 16
Chapter 4 Carole's Story: The Girl with All the Gifts 18
Chapter 5 Leprechaun 21
Chapter 6 We Have Always Lived in the Castle 23
Chapter 7 The Island of Dr. Moreau 29
Chapter 8 Heidi 35
Chapter 9 Aerobicide 43
Chapter 10 House of Wax 51
Chapter 11 Have Fun Storming the Castle 58
Chapter 12 Gooble Gobble 62
Chapter 13 Body Parts 67
Chapter 14 The Cabin in the Woods 75
Chapter 15 Carole's Story: The Winter Walk 81
Chapter 16 The Abominable Dr. Phibes 85
Chapter 17 Attack of the Killer Tomatoes 95
Chapter 18 Vampire's Kiss 101
Chapter 19 The Changeling 111
Chapter 20 A Sweetness in the Blood 117
Chapter 21 Cissy Inventing the Pantheon 129
Chapter 22 I Was a Teenage Werewolf 131
Chapter 23 Curse of the Spider Woman 135
Chapter 24 Face/Off 140
Chapter 25 The Red Shoes 143
Chapter 26 There Will Be Blood 145
Chapter 27 There Will Be (More) Blood 149
Chapter 28 Friday the 13th 157
Chapter 29 Armageddon 161
Part 2
Chapter 30 The Birds 171
Chapter 31 Art School Confidential 174
Chapter 32 The Man Who Fell to Earth 176
Chapter 33 What Music They Make 184
Chapter 34 Shrek 189
Chapter 35 Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal 192
Chapter 36 The Haunting of Hill House 195
Chapter 37 Suspiria 199
Chapter 38 Gone Girl 205
Chapter 39 Graveyard Shift 210
Chapter 40 The Bride of Frankenstein 215
Chapter 41 The Tell-Tale Heart 223
Chapter 42 Picnic at Hanging Rock 227
Chapter 43 Nerve Endings 233
Chapter 44 The Picture of Dorian Gray 236
Chapter 45 One of Us 240
Chapter 46 Night Gallery 249
Chapter 47 The Woods 265
Chapter 48 I Know What You Did Last Summer 269
Chapter 49 Theater of Blood 272
Chapter 50 Phantom of the Opera 283
Chapter 51 Cat People 293
Chapter 52 American Horror Story 301
Chapter 53 The Pit and the Pendulum 307
Chapter 54 The Fall of the House of Usher 310
Chapter 55 The Invisible Man 313
Chapter 56 The Company of Wolves 319
Chapter 57 I See Dead People 329
Chapter 58 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 335
Chapter 59 Freaks 343
Chapter 60 The Skin We Live In 349
Chapter 61 Gollum 355
Golem I 364
Golem II 366
Epilogue(s) 369
The Portraits 373
List of Illustrations 409
Resources 419
Acknowledgments 421