Author Description

Preface, Brian Collins (Ohio University, USA) -- Introduction, Ellen Goldberg (Queen's University, Canada), Aditi Sen (Queen's University, Canada), and Brian Collins (Ohio University, USA) -- Part I: Material Cultures and Prehistories of Horror in South Asia -- 1. Monsters, Masala, and Materiality: Close Encounters with Hindi Horror Movie Ephemera, Brian Collins (Ohio University, USA) -- 2. Vampire Man Varma: The Untold Story of the "Hindu Mystic" Who Decolonized Dracula, Brian Collins (Ohio University, USA) -- Part II: Religion -- 3. Divine Horror and the Avenging Goddess in Bollywood, Kathleen Erndl (Florida State University, USA) -- 4. Horrifying and Sinister Tantriks, Hugh B. Urban (Ohio State University, USA) -- 5. Do you want to know the Raaz Tropes of Madness and Immorality in Bollywood Horror, Aditi Sen (Queen's University, Canada) -- Part III: Cinematic Fears -- 6. Cutural Horror In Dev: Man is the Cruelest Animal, Ellen Goldberg (Queens University, Canada) -- 7. Bandit Queen, Rape-Revenge, and Cultural Horror, Morgan Oddie (Queen's University, Canada) -- 8. Mardaani and the Trafficking of Women in India, Beth Watkins ( Allegheny College, USA) -- Epilogue: Is the Medium the Message? Rachel Dwyer (SOAS, University of London, UK) -- Bibliography -- Index.