Telling an American Horror Story

Cameron Williams Crawford is a senior lecturer at the University of North Georgia in Gainesville. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Leverett Butts teaches American literature at the Gainesville campus of the University of North Georgia. He lives in Carrollton, Georgia.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionCameron Williams Crawford and Leverett ButtsPart I. History and FolkloreAsylum: Taboos and Transgressions in U.S. HistoryErin Guydish BuchholzWhere Myth Meets History: Discursive Haunting and the Resurrection of Marie Laveau in CovenRita MookerjeeCoven’s LaLaurie and Laveau: Contemporary Narratives of Southern Gothicism, Folklore and Nineteenth-Century New OrleansTammie JenkinsApocalypse and the Devil WeLeverett ButtsPart II. Space and PlaceDerridean Hauntology as Cultural Praxis: The Strange Case of Murder HouseJonathan GreenawayThe Psychiatric Clinic in Horror Cinema and TV: AsylumAntonio SannaThe Swampy Boundaries of “Otherness” in Freak Show and RoanokeCameron Williams CrawfordThe ­Meta-Carnival: Monsters and Mothers in Freak ShowJennifer K. CoxPart III. Identity PoliticsThe ­Mother-Witch and Witch as Mother in CovenSarah Foust VinsonWear Something Black: Fashion and Fierce Femininity in the Witch Drag of CovenMichelle L. PribbernowDestructive Leadership in Coven, Freak Show and CultCorrine E. HintonThe Lesbian Gothic in Asylum and HotelTosha R. TaylorAppendix I. List of EpisodesAppendix II. List of Major CharactersAbout the ContributorsIndex