Fear and Nature

Christy Tidwell is Associate Professor of English and Humanities at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. She is the coeditor of Gender and Environment in Science Fiction. Carter Soles is Associate Professor of Film Studies at SUNY Brockport. He has published a number of journal articles and book chapters in the fields of film studies and ecomedia.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Ecohorror in the AnthropoceneChristy Tidwell and Carter SolesPart 1: Expanding Horror1. Tentacular Ecohorror and the Agency of Trees in Algernon Blackwood’s “The Man Whom the Trees Loved” and Lorcan Finnegan’s Without NameDawn Keetley2. Spiraling Inward and Outward: Junji Ito’s Uzumaki and the Scope of EcohorrorChristy Tidwell3. “The Hand of Deadly Decay”: The Rotting Corpse, America’s Religious Tradition, and the Ethics of Green Burial in Poe’s “The Colloquy of Monos and Una”Ashley KnissPart 2: Haunted and Unhaunted Landscapes4. The Death of Birdsong, the Birdsong of Death: Algernon Charles Swinburne and the Horror of ErosionKeri Stevenson5. An Unhaunted Landscape: The Anti-Gothic Impulse in Ambrose Bierce’s “A Tough Tussle”Chelsea Davis6. The Extinction-Haunted Salton Sea in The Monster That Challenged the WorldBridgitte BarclayPart 3: The Ecohorror of Intimacy7. From the Bedroom to the Bathroom: Stephen King’s Scatology and the Emergence of an Urban Environmental GothicMarisol Cortez8. “This Bird Made an Art of Being Vile”: Ontological Difference and Uncomfortable Intimacies in Stephen Gregory’s The CormorantBrittany R. Roberts9. The Shape of Water and Post-pastoral EcohorrorRobin L. Murray and Joseph K. HeumannPart 4: Being Prey, Being Food10. Superpig Blues: Agribusiness Ecohorror in Bong Joon-ho’s OkjaKristen Angierski11. Zoo: Television Ecohorror On and Off the ScreenSharon Sharp12. Naturalizing White Supremacy in The ShallowsCarter SolesContributorsIndex

“Fear and Nature expansively defines eco-horror as not only a sub-genre of literature but as a cohesive mode operating across genres and media. Whether talking about Algernon Blackwood or Algernon Swinburne, Bong Joon Ho or Junji Ito, this volume explores the rhizomatic connections that make eco-criticism something that transcends genre, and makes a convincing case for its relevance not only today but as a way of reconsidering what has come before.”—Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World