Youth Horror Television and the Question of Fear

Kyle Brett is adjunct professor at Lafayette College.Ethan Robles is an independent scholar.

• Section One: Youth Horror and What Matters to AdultsChapter One: “And Whenever They Catch You, They Will Kill You”: Martin Rosen’s Watership Down (1978) as HorrorBrandon R. GrafiusChapter Two: “The Sooner We’re All One Big Happy Family, the Better”: Children of the Stones as a Cautionary Tale Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni BernsChapter Three:Abject Horror in Courage the Cowardly DogKatherine Ridolfi-LizzaSection Two: Youth Horror and Imagining DifferencesChapter Four: Green Men, Literate Worms, and Swamp Monsters—an Ecocritical Reading of Select Goosebumps EpisodesBarbara Katharina ReschenhoferChapter Five:Everywhere and Nowhere:Pastiche and the Uncanny in Courage the Cowardly DogKimberly Plaksin Chapter Six: Developing in the Dark: Confronting Fears through Supportive Storytelling in Nickelodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark?Michael JacobSection Three: Youth Horror Reaches Its AdulthoodChapter Seven: “I Call This Story the Tale of . . .”: The Hosts and Narrators of Children’s Horror TelevisionMerinda StaubliChapter Eight: “We’ve Been Teenagers Forever”: Reference and Self-Reflexivity in Scooby-Doo! Mystery IncorporatedStacey Anh BaranChapter Nine: “Don’t Let Your Parents Watch It Alone!”: Cautionary Tales and Family Horror in R. L. Stine’s The Haunting HourFilipa Antunes

Reader, beware! The kids who grew up sitting too close to the television or peeking through their fingers to watch Goosebumps and Watership Down have grown up, and they are here to mine their childhood nightmares to frighteningly satisfying ends. Youth Horror Television and the Question of Fear unites the most exciting new and established voices in the field to give long overdue attention to this fascinating area of study.