Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Mark Callaghan and Kacey Davis -- Seeing the Invisible: Representing what Cannot Be Represented / Mark Callaghan -- Depictions of Terror: Contemporary Artistic Representations of Sexual Violence / Amanda Stone -- Fears in Hybridic Fiction: When Reality Negates the Pleasures of Terror / Tamara Andersson -- Terror and Shock in H.P. Lovecraft / Cátia Cristina Sanzovo Jota -- Ordinary Pain: Torture as Domestic Power Struggle in Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming / Kacey Davis -- Fear of Implausibility: Women in Othello / Katia Mitova -- The Tragic Politics of Fear, Nature and Gender in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist / A. Andreas Wansbrough -- An Analysis of ‘Terror’ within the Light of the Hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur / Gerben Bakker -- Conflicts in the Control of Fear: From the Archives of the New Zealand Mental Hospitals Department / Rebecca McLaughlan -- Post-War Existence in Georgia: After August 2008 / Nino Tabeshadze -- Why Size Matters: Fear, Terror, and Their Real World Counterparts in Monster Movies / Woodrow B. Hood -- Cosmic Landscapes, Infinite Spaces and the Smell of Terror: The Sublime in 20th-Century Space Visualizations / Kornelia Boczkowska -- I’m Not Sure I Like the Sound of That: Palliative Effects of the ‘Synchronous Monster’ in The Exorcist / Simon Hewitt -- The Dickensian Night: The Uncanny and the Urban Alienated / Puja Sen -- Stories of Fear, Horror and Terror: The Price that the Storytellers Pay / Magdalena Hodalska -- Reporting Fear in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year / Marcia Bessa Marques -- The Devil and the Racial Other in Tabish Khair’s The Things about Thugs / Om Prakash Dwivedi -- Cross-Cultural Fear? Japanese Horror Films and Their Hollywood Remakes / Martin Hennig.