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Author:   Eleanor Beal ,  Jon Greenaway
Publisher:   University of Wales Press
Imprint:   University of Wales Press
ISBN:  

9781786834409

ISBN 10:   1786834405
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   15 July 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction 1. ‘Headlong into an Immense Abyss’: Horror and Calvinism in Scotland and the United States - Neil Syme 2. The Blood is the Life: An Exploration of the Vampire’s Jewish Shadow - Mary Going 3. Decadent Horror Fiction and Fin-de-Siècle Neo-Thomism - Zoë Lehmann Imfeld 4. ‘Let the Queer One in’: The Performance of the Holy, Innocent and Monstrous Body in Vampire Fiction - Rachel Mann 5. More or Less Human, or Less is More Humane?: Monsters, Cyborgs and Technological (Ex)tensions of Edenic Bodies - Scott Midson 6. Horror and the Death of God - Simon Marsden 7. Aboriginal Ghosts, Sacred Cannibals and the Pagan Christ: Consuming the Past as Salvation in Wilson Harris’s Jonestown - Eleanor Beal 8. Reconfiguring Gothic Anti-Catholicism: Faith and Folk-Horror in the Work of Andrew Michael Hurley - Jonathan Greenaway 9. ‘Deliver Us from Evil’: David Mitchell, Repetition and Redemption - Andrew Tate Bibliography Index

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Horror and Religion is aimed at university students and academics interested in the areas of Gothic, Horror, Religious Studies, Theology and Comparative Literature.

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