“Bold, erudite, and well-informed, this original study maps the encounter with the fantastic across two centuries of cultural production. Stoker and Poe rub shoulders with Rod Serling and Stephen King in a tour de force that bridges accepted classics and neglected milestones of popular fiction and core texts of contemporary film and television. The entire narrative opens a window to all the key obsessions of the modern and post-modern condition: sex, death, race, identity and more.”—Nicholas J. Cull, University of Southern California
