Research in Horror Studies

Foreword: The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time: Undead Memory and the Return to the Return of the Repressed
Steffen Hantke
Introduction
Simon Bacon
Prologue: Pathological Nostalgia
Theresa Porter

Part I: Configuring the Undead Present
Chapter One: "Chasing spies—so old-fashioned!": Toxic Nostalgia and the Undying Past in Sam Mendes' Skyfall (2012)
Katharina Rein
Chapter Two: "Have Changed Their Faces": Capitalism, Celebrity and the Undead Memory of the Consumerist Masses
Andrew M. Boylan
Chapter Three: Gothic Memory and Dark Nostalgia in Lifetime's Flowers in the Attic (2014)
Miranda Corcoran
Chapter Four: Spectral Visitation: Representations of Ghosts, Evil and Benign, in Contemporary Gothic Fiction
Paulina Palmer

Part II: Undead Religion
Chapter Five: Religion and the Gothic Memory: Toxic Excuses for the Past
Brandon Grafius
Chapter Six: Sinister Sanctums: The Role Toxic Nostalgia and the Patriarchy Play in Religious Horror Films
Mo Moshaty
Chapter Seven: The Unholy Fusion of Reproductive Futurism and Toxic Nostalgia in Immaculate and The First Omen
Sophie Aimee Ahlemeyer and Reece Goodall

Part III: The Undying Past in America
Chapter Eight: "You don't know what those monsters can do": Reexamining Genre and Resisting Representation in American Horror Story: Roanoke (2016)
Kathleen Hudson
Chapter Nine: "I wanted to pit Dracula against my mom": Disrupting Intergenerational Trauma in The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Cathleen Allyn Conway
Chapter Ten: Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman: Black Bodies, Black Stories, and Evolving Perspectives in the Supernatural Slasher
Aksel Dadswell
Chapter Eleven: The Wounds of Racism: Traumatic Affect in Lovecraft Country
Matthias du Bondt

Part IV: Undead Colonialism
Chapter Twelve: Undead Usurpers: The Metaphorical Terror at the Heart of Kingdom
Lyz Reblin-Renshaw
Chapter Thirteen: Frankenstein in Baghdad
Martyn James Colebrook
Chapter Fourteen: Mujeres juntas, marabunta: La Llorona and La Tulivieja, Contesting Patriarchal the Stronghold in Latin American Horror
Valeria Villegas Lindvall
Chapter Fifteen: Zombie Capitalism and the Exhaustion of Tech-Utopia in Don Delillo's Late Fiction
John Conlan

Part V: Undead Memory in Undying Futures
Chapter Sixteen: We Have Always Lived in the Bunker: Toxic Nostalgia in the Post-Traumatic Culture of Attack on Titan
Cristina Diamant
Chapter Seventeen: User Not Found: The Trauma Virus in Unfriended and The Den
Duncan Hubber
Chapter Eighteen: "The Circuit complete, I drain him": The Memory of Monsters in "The Stainless Steel Leach"
Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.