Horror and Comics

List of Illustrations and Captions Notes on Contributors Introduction – Barbara Chamberlin, Kom Kunyosying, and Julia Round PART ONE: Crossing Genres, Blurring Boundaries Multimodal Mirroring in ‘The Black Cat’ – Elizabeth Allyn Woock Satanic Feminism and Decadent Aesthetics in Guido Crepax’s ‘Valentina’ Comics – Miranda Corcoran The Living, the Dead and the Living Dead: Brazilian Horror Imagery and Genre Hybridisation in Shiko‘s Três Buracos – Tiago José Lemos I Monteiro and Heitor Da Luz Silva Befriending the Past: The Genre-Bending Vanessa Comics Series (1982–1990) and its Historical Context – Barbara M. Eggert PART TWO: Identity, Agency, Humanity ‘I’m not who he thinks I am’: Identity and Victimhood in Country Horror Comics – Matthew Costello ‘What’s one more monster?’: Articulations of Latinx Monstrosity and Whiteness in Border Town – Anna Marta Marini ‘Still pretty, ain’t she?’: The Female Gaze and the Queer Monstrous Feminine in Itō Junji’s Tomie – Keiko Miyajima Sinister Houses and Forbidden Loves: Queer Identity in DC’s Gothic Romances – Lillian Hochwender PART THREE: Society, Anxiety, Politics Abjection, Ambivalence and the Abyss in EC’s New Trend Line – Alex Link The Power of a Demon and the Heart of a Human: The Darkness of Humanity in Devilman – Meriel Dhanowa Where the Wild Things Really Are: Comics and the Horrors of Reality – Dirk Vanderbeke and Doreen Triebel ‘REALITY scarier than any boogeyman’: Shock, Exploitation, and Environmentalism in Slow Death Funnies – Christy Tidwell Afterwords – Barbara Chamberlin, Kom Kunyosying, and Julia Round