Table of Contents
Introduction vii
Section 1 Slashers 1
Chapter 1 Halloween 3
Chapter 2 Child's Play 8
Chapter 3 A Nightmare on Elm Street 13
Section 2 Serial Killers 19
Chapter 4 Psycho 21
Chapter 5 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 30
Chapter 6 The Silence of the Lambs 41
Section 3 Vampires 49
Chapter 7 Dracula 51
Chapter 8 Nosferatu 56
Chapter 9 Jennifer's Body 60
Section 4 Reanimated Corpses 65
Chapter 10 Night of the Living Dead 67
Chapter 11 Frankenstein 75
Chapter 12 The Mummy 80
Section 5 The Possessed 85
Chapter 13 The Exorcist 87
Chapter 14 The Tingler 93
Chapter 15 Get Out 98
Section 6 Deadly Animals 105
Chapter 16 Cujo 107
Chapter 17 Arachnophobia 113
Chapter 18 The Birds 120
Section 7 Ghosts 127
Chapter 19 Poltergeist 129
Chapter 20 The Shining 137
Chapter 21 The Ring 143
Section 8 From the Depths 147
Chapter 22 Creature from the Black Lagoon 149
Chapter 23 Jaws 154
Chapter 24 Alien 158
Section 9 Witches 167
Chapter 25 The Witch 169
Chapter 26 Carrie 173
Chapter 27 The Blair Witch Project 180
Section 10 Creatures 187
Chapter 28 The Descent 189
Chapter 29 Tremors 197
Chapter 30 The Wolf Man 201
A Final Note 206
Acknowledgments 207
About the Authors 208
Endnotes 209
Index 217
