Acknowledgments Introduction Barbara Brodman and James E Doan Part One: Ethereals and Terrestrials 1 Of Angels and Demons: Staging the Demise of Ireland's "Celtic Tiger" through Supernatural Allegory C. Austin Hill 2 No More Mr. Nice Angel: Angelic Ethics from Paradise Lost to Supernatural Scott Culpepper 3 The Nightmare Tales of J. S. Le Fanu Paul E. H. Davis 4 Of Fairies and Sorcerers: Dichotomous Depictions of Race and Ethnicity in 1980s Fantasy Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman 5 Philosophers and Demons: Socrates, Descartes and the Search for Certainty Darren Hibbs 6 The Haunting of a Nation: Ghostly Public Discourses and the Making of Caribbean Nationhood Andrea Shaw Nevins 7 An American Werewolf in Trelleborg: Representation of the Werewolf in Swedish Folk Belief and Popular Culture Tommy Kuusela 8 Magic Mexican Modernity: The Shifting Image of Witches and Witchcraft in the Movies Claudia Schaefer and Raul Rodriguez-Hernandez 9 Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy, Supernatural Heredity, and "Creature" Genetics Ashley Szanter Part Two: The Undead and Still Dead 10 An Anime Dullahan: The Irish Death Messenger Adapted in Japanese Popular Culture Masaya Shimokusu 11 Re-dressing Revenants: Anxieties of the Body, the Self and Desire When the Undead Make a Stylish Return Sarah Heaton 12 From Vampires to Zombies: The Revisionist Recreation of I Am Legend Jessica E. Birch 13 Dying to Love You: The Evolution of the Romantic Zombie Simon Bacon 14 Undead Yakuza: The Japanese Zombie Movie, Cultural Resonance and Generic Conventions Kayleigh Murphy and Mark David Ryan 15 "Look at the Flowers": Female Evolution in the Face of the Zombie Hordes of The Walking Dead Cynthia Vinney and Caryn Wiley-Rapoport 16 From White Zombies to Night Zombies and Beyond: The Evolution of the Zombie in Western Popular Culture Todd K. Platts 17 From Saga to Skyrim: The Literary and Multimedia Reception of the Norse-Icelandic Draugr Myth Matthias Teichert Selected Bibliography Index About the Editors and Contributors