Horror and Philosophy

Subashish Bhattacharjee is an assistant professor of English at the University of North Bengal, India. He edits the interdisciplinary online journal The Apollonian, and is an editor for the journal Muse India. Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns is a professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)—Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (Argentina), where he teaches courses on international horror film.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionFernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Subashish BhattacharjeePart 1: Postmodernist StorytellingThe Rhetoric of Contemplative Horror: Inquiry, Discovery, and OptimismGavin F. HurleyNightmare Allegory: Darren Aronofsky’s Mother!Brian BremsInland Empire and Reconciling Postmodern FragmentationDennin Ellis“It’s all a movie”: Postmodern Parody, Media, and Violence in ScreamDouglas RasmussenPart 2: Literary Horrors, Philosophical InquiriesThe Disembodied Voice and Its Digital Dreaming: CCRU as Philosopher(s?) and AuthorSara PowellBorges’s Defense of Berkeley’s Idealism in “There Are More Things”Andrés Torres-ScottHorror of ­Decision-Making: Aspects of Peter Zapffe’s Existential Pessimism in Blake Crouch’s Dark MatterMaria LehtimäkiEpistemologies of Horror and Narrative Construction: Paul Tremblay’s A Head Full of Ghosts, Scott Thomas’s Kill Creek, and Clay McLeod Chapman’s The RemakingAlissa BurgerPart 3: Subhuman, Animality, Colonialism—The Horrors of the OtherThe Horror of X: Speculative Virontology and the Ahuman Sublime in Todd Verow’s BottomAndrija FilipovićFour Men Before the Imminent: Death and Heroism in Bone TomahawkEmiliano AguilarGreed Is NOT Good: A Historical Materialist Reading of Two Indian Films: Rahi Anil Barve’s Tumbbad and Satyajit Ray’s MoniharaJoe Varghese Yeldho, Amarjeet Nayak, and Mehboobun Nahar MilkyThe Lure of Folk Horror: Ari Aster’s MidsommarPriyanka KapoorEntering the Ecosystem: Human Identity, Biology, and HorrorOctavia CadePosthumanism, Sexism: Animalizing Ripley in Alien: ResurrectionFernando Gabriel Pagnoni BernsPart 4: Seriality—Comics, Television, ShortsThe Black Universes of Donald Glover and Hiro Murai: Woke Horror Cinema, Existential Pessimisms, and the Shadowy Speculations of Blackness in “This Is America” and AtlantaDavid John BoydMoral Relativism and the Horror of Self in Season 2 of AMC’s The Walking DeadScott PearceThe Horror Versus L’Indagatore dell’Incubo: The Dionysian Irrational, and Absurd in Dylan Dog’s NarrativeMarco FavaroBody Horror Behind the Wheel: Mapping the Aesthetics of the Driving Safety Gore Film in HorrorMichael StockAbout the ContributorsIndex