When the woman looks / Linda Williams -- Horror and the monstrous-feminine : an imaginary abjection / Barbara Creed -- Her body, himself : gender in the slasher film / Carol Clover -- The monster and the homosexual / Harry M. Benshoff -- "It will thrill you, it will terrify you, it might even horrify you" : gender, reception, and classic horror cinema / Rhona J. Berenstein -- Bringing it all back home : family economy and generic exchange / Vivian Sobchack -- Trying to survive on the darker side : 1980s family horror / Tony Williams -- Genre, gender, and the aliens trilogy / Thomas Doherty -- Taking back the Night of the living dead : George Romero, feminism, and the horror film / Barry Keith Grant -- Gender, genre, argento / Adam Knee -- "Beyond the veil of the flesh" : David Cronenberg and the disembodiment of horror / Lianne McLarty -- The horror film in neoconservative culture / Christopher Sharrett -- Torture porn and uneasy feminisms : rethinking (wo)men in Eli Roth's hostel films / Maisha Wester -- Horror, femininity, and Carrie's monstrous puberty / Shelley Stamp -- The monster as woman : two generations of cat people / Karen Hollinger -- Here comes the bride : wedding gender and race in Bride of Frankenstein / Elizabeth Young -- Burying the undead : the use and obsolescence of Count Dracula / Robin Wood -- Old times in Werewolf of London / Robert Spadoni -- Daughters of darkness : the lesbian vampire on film / Bonnie Zimmerman -- Birth traumas : parturition and horror in Rosemary's baby / Lucy Fischer -- The place of passion : reflections on Fatal attraction / James Conlon -- Feminine horror : the embodied surrealism of In my skin / Adam Lowenstein -- Uncanny horrors : male rape in Twentynine palms / Lisa Coulthard.