Monstrous Things

<p> An indispensable resource for students and researchers of paranormal myth and media this book explores the undead and unholy in literature film television and popular culture. Following an introduction to frightful manifestations in media sections address ghosts vampires and monsters individually and each section includes a broad consideration of the ghost vampire or monster in American culture. </p><p> The section dedicated to ghosts examines the spectral turn of popular culture and the ghost's relation to justice and mourning with particular attention to Toni Morrison and Herman Melville. In the vampires section the author considers the undead bloodsucker's relationship to anti-Semitism suicide and cinema. The third section discusses monsters in relation to topics such as global pandemics terrorism mass shootings stranger danger and social otherness with attention to a range of popular culture texts including the films <I>IT</I> and <I>It Follows</I>.</p>