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Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pennsylvania
A collection of essays analyzing ecohorror motifs in literature, manga, film, and television, illuminating ambiguities that arise from human encounters with nonhuman nature and examining the scale and effect of ecohorror in, and of, the Anthropocene
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A collection of essays analyzing ecohorror motifs in literature, manga, film, and television, illuminating ambiguities that arise from human encounters with nonhuman nature and examining the scale and effect of ecohorror in, and of, the Anthropocene
AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Ecohorror in the AnthropoceneChristy Tidwell and Carter SolesPart 1: Expanding Horror1. Tentacular Ecohorror and the Agency of Trees in Algernon Blackwood s The Man Whom the Trees Loved and Lorcan Finnegan s Without NameDawn Keetley2. Spiraling Inward and Outward: Junji Ito s Uzumaki and the Scope of EcohorrorChristy Tidwell3. The Hand of Deadly Decay : The Rotting Corpse, America s Religious Tradition, and the Ethics of Green Burial in Poe s The Colloquy of Monos and Una Ashley KnissPart 2: Haunted and Unhaunted Landscapes4. The Death of Birdsong, the Birdsong of Death: Algernon Charles Swinburne and the Horror of ErosionKeri Stevenson5. An Unhaunted Landscape: The Anti-Gothic Impulse in Ambrose Bierce s A Tough Tussle Chelsea Davis6. The Extinction-Haunted Salton Sea in The Monster That Challenged the WorldBridgitte BarclayPart 3: The Ecohorror of Intimacy7. From the Bedroom to the Bathroom: Stephen King s Scatology and the Emergence of an Urban Environmental GothicMarisol Cortez8. This Bird Made an Art of Being Vile : Ontological Difference and Uncomfortable Intimacies in Stephen Gregory s The CormorantBrittany R. Roberts9. The Shape of Water and Post-pastoral EcohorrorRobin L. Murray and Joseph K. HeumannPart 4: Being Prey, Being Food10. Superpig Blues: Agribusiness Ecohorror in Bong Joon-ho s OkjaKristen Angierski11. Zoo: Television Ecohorror On and Off the ScreenSharon Sharp12. Naturalizing White Supremacy in The ShallowsCarter SolesContributorsIndex
