Preface
1. Tickets, Please
An Introduction to Sacred Terror
2. Lying at the Heart of Horror
Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen
3. Angels to Some, Demons to Others
Fear of Change in the Sacred Order
4. No Sanctuary
Ambivalence and the Fear of Sacred Places
5. Stalking Life
The Fear of Death and of Dying Badly
6. Mainstreaming Satan
Fear of Supernatural Evil Internalized and Externalized
7. The Unholy Human
Fear of Fanaticism and Fear of the Flesh
8. Curtain and House Lights
Possibility Persists in the World Outside the Frame
Filmography
Bibliography
Index