Alexander N. Howe: A knot of bodies: The tattoo as navel in Louisa May Alcott's `V.V.: Or, plots and counterplots' /
Spencer Jordan: Making Manhattan: Urban hieroglyphics, patternings and tattoos in Edgar Allan Poe's `The tell-tale heart' and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; Or, the whale /
David Beck: Medical men: Speculations of morality and spirituality in Arthur Conan Doyle's writings /
Hywel Dix: From naive artists to integrated professionals: The portrayal of tattoos in Sarah Hall's The electric Michelangelo and Alan Kent's Voodoo pilchard /
Ellen Carter: Mis-reading moko: Cross-cultural tattooing in Caryl Ferey's New Zealand crime fiction /
Kerstin Bergman: Transforming tattoos of the girl with the dragon tattoo /
Rebekah Humphreys: The killing floor and crime narratives: Marking women and nonhuman animals /
Katharine Cox: The tattoo wakes: Sentient ink, curatorship and writing the new weird in China Mieville's Kraken: An anatomy /
Lucy Andrew: Dark marks, curse scars and corporal punishment: Criminality and the function of bodily marks in the Harry Potter series /
Katharine Cox: `Since the schism': Reading the tattoo in Lemony Snicket's A series of unfortunate events /
Peter Figler: The ink of the real: Memory and identity in Christopher Nolan's Memento /
Matt Oches: The Bounty mutiny and its adaptations: Tattooing, primitivism, class and criminality /
Karin Beeler: Hunting for the branded body in Supernatural: Tattoos, the Mark of Cain and fan culture /
Will Slocombe: Generic branding: Tattoos, transgenics, and tech-noir in Dark angel /
John Miller.: Tattoos, deviance and consumer culture in North American television: Criminal minds, CSI: NY and Law and order /