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INDEX
agency detection, 13, 46, 139–142. See also supernatural belief
Alan Wake (Ranki and Kasurinen), 68
Alien (Scott), 54
Alone in the Dark (Raynal and Bonnel), 68
American Horror Story (Murphy and Falchuk), 10
Amis, Kingsley, 105
Amnesia (Grip and Nilsson), 54, 149–151
amygdala, 26, 41
Andreasen, James, 74
Antichrist. See Rosemary’s Baby (Levin)
antisociality. See evil
anxiety, 27, 104–105. See also fear
apocalypse. See I Am Legend (Matheson); Night of the Living Dead (Romero)
Asma, Stephen T., 23
attention, 26–27, 31, 33–34, 41–42, 45–46
augmented reality, 148
authenticity
as style in horror, 95–96, 139–140, 143–144
See also found-footage horror
basic motives, 84. See also evolutionary psychology; fear; human evolution; meaning, human need for
Benchley, Peter, 5, 103, 110–111
Bierce, Ambrose, 68
Big Ass Spider! (Mendez), 43
biocultural criticism, 5, 20–21. See also evolutionary literary theory
Biskind, Peter, 105
Black Christmas (Clark), 125
Blair Witch Project, The (Sánchez and Myrick), 2, 34, 61, 72–73, 135–144
Blair Witch Project: A Dossier, The (Stern), 136
Blatty, William Peter, 70
Bloch, Robert, 68, 69, 70, 78
Bloodborne (Miyazaki), 68
Bloom, Paul, 58
Body Snatchers, The (Finney), 69–70
Bonnel, Bruno, 68
Booth, Michael, 74
Bowen, Nik, 67, 74, 151–154
Bradbury, Ray, 68, 69, 78
Brooks, Max, 73
Brown, Charles Brockden, 67
Browning, Tod, 69
Bruhm, Steven, 115
Cabin in the Woods, The (Goddard), 72
Cannibal Corpse, 65
Cantor, Joanne, 61
Caputi, Jane, 105
Carpenter, John
Halloween, 33, 44, 71, 125–134, 149
In the Mouth of Madness, 68
Carrie (De Palma), 37
Carrie (King), 14, 49
Carrion Comfort (Simmons), 49
Carroll, Joseph. See evolutionary literary theory
Carroll, Noël, 50
Castle of Otranto, The (Walpole), 9
Cemetery Dance, 71
Cherry Falls (Wright), 133
Christine (King), 45
Clark, Bob, 125
Cloverfield (Reeves), 31–33, 43
clowns, 43–44
Cohen, Allan, 115
Cold War, 79
conformity, 79, 84
consilience, 20–21
constructivist approach
to Blair Witch Project, The (Sánchez and Myrick), 137, 144
to Halloween (Carpenter), 126–127
to horror, 12–13, 16, 19–20
to I Am Legend (Matheson), 79–80
to Night of the Living Dead (Romero), 94–95
to Shining, The (King), 115
contagion, 35, 39, 42, 96–97, 122, 159See also disgust
contamination, 91. See also contagion
corpses, 98, 122
counterculture, 94–95, 126
counterintuitive traits, 45–48, 98
Craven, Wes
Last House on the Left, The, 29, 48–49, 70
Nightmare on Elm Street, A, 133
Scream, 72, 133
Crichton, Michael, 56
Creed, Barbara, 16–17
C
unningham, Sean S., 71
Curse of the Blair Witch (Myrick and Sánchez), 136
“Damned Thing, The” (Bierce), 68
danger
ancestral, 25, 143
cues of, 26
learning about, 56–57
responding adequately to, 127–129
See also contagion; fear; predation
Darabont, Frank, 48, 58, 73, 96–97, 101
Dark Forces (McCauley), 71
darkness, 32, 79–80, 151
Darwin, Charles, 24, 28–29
Davenport, Stephen, 115
De Palma, Brian, 37
death
causes of, 25, 40
fear of (see under fear)
Demme, Jonathan, 29, 30–31
demonic possession, 91–92
Derleth, August, 68
Dickens, Charles, 56
Dillard, R. H. W., 98
disgust, 48–50, 97–98, 122
moral disgust, 49, 90 (see also morality)
See also contagion
dominance. See evil: as antisocial motive
Dozier, Jr., Rush W., 27–28, 53–54
Dracula (Browning), 69
Dracula (Stoker), 4, 14, 80
dread, 69, 140. See also fear
Dreadful Pleasures (Twitchell), 12
Dumas, Chris, 17
Dutton, Denis, 30
Dystopia Haunted House, 157–160
Ebert, Roger, 96, 126, 142
emotional contagion, 49–51, 81
empathy. See under horror
Enlightenment, Age of, 10
evil, 48–49, 67, 79, 83–84, 86–88, 90–92, 116–121, 140
as antisocial motive, 87, 91–92, 120–123 (see also power, as antagonistic motive)
as metaphysical force, 86–87, 116, 120–121
and place, 143
evolution. See evolutionary psychology; human evolution
evolutionary literary theory, 55. See also biocultural criticism
evolutionary psychology, 4, 19–20, 24, 88–89, 132–133. See also human evolution
Exorcist, The (Blatty), 70
Exorcist, The (Friedkin), 14–15, 29, 30, 34, 49, 70
extreme sports, 53–54, 160
Falchuk, Brad, 10
Famous Monsters of Filmland, 69
Fangoria, 71
fear, 23–34, 35–51
children’s, 37–40, 61–62
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