Horror in Space

Michele Brittany is the book review editor for the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and is the co-chair of the Ann Radcliffe Conference held in conjunction with Horror Writers Association’s annual Stokercon. She lives in Glendale, Arizona.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One: Horror Made in AmericaJohn Carpenter of Mars: Space Horror in the Films of John Carpenter (Ben Kooyman)The Cold, White Reproduction of the Same: A New Hypothesis About John Carpenter’s The Thing (Dario Altobelli) Meteor Madness: Lovecraftian Horror and Consumerism in the Battle for Small Town USA (Nicholas Diak)“It (never actually) came from outer space”: ­Earth-OriginThreats in Space Horror Films (Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.) Part Two: Time and Space in a Sea of ­Post-Modern IsolationNonknowledge and Inner Experience: A ­Post-Modern Rhetoricof Space Horror (Gavin F. Hurley) Out of Space—Out of Time: Looking at the Factors of Time in Space Horror Movies (Juliane Schlag) We’re All Alone, Out Here: Isolation and Its Contribution to Space Horror in Film (Janet Joyce Holden) That Moon Is Romantic: Duncan Jones’s Dark Fairy Tale (Adam M. Crowley) Part Three: The Uncanny BodyThe Architecture of ­Sci-Fi Body Horror: Mechanical ­Building-Bodies and Organic Invasion from Deep Space to the Anthropocene (Brenda S. Gardenour Walter)Ghosts in the Machine: Emotion and Haunting in the Creation of the Irrational Robot (Casey Ratto) Part Four: The Devil Made Me Betwixt and Between: Magic, Science and the Devil’s Place in Outer Space (Andrew P. Williams)Under the Influence: Undead Planets and Vampiric Dreamworlds in Outer Space (Simon Bacon) Part Five: Play It Again or Rip It Off A “family of displaced figures”: Posthumanism and ­Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Alien Resurrection (1997) (Charles W. Reick) Galaxies of Terror in a ­Knock-Off Universe: Atavism and the ­Rip-Off Body Horror of “Aliensploitation” Films (Jason Davis) Leprechaun 4 and Jason X: Camp, Paracinema and the Postmodern Sequel (Kevin Chabot)About the ContributorsIndex

"I found it an extremely interesting and sometimes enlightening book that touches on themes that you had not yet thought of. Highly recommended to those who want to delve deeper!" - Out of this World Magazine