Read more
List of contents
Introduction: Giving the Devil His Due
Regina M. Hansen and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock | 1
The Sign of the Cross: Georges Méliès and Early Satanic Cinema
Russ Hunter | 15
Murnau's
Faust and the Weimar Moment
Barry C. Knowlton and Eloise R. Knowlton | 27
Disney's Devils
J. P. Telotte | 42
What's the Deal with the Devil? The Comedic Devil in Four Films
Katherine A. Fowkes | 58
His Father's Eyes:
Rosemary''s BabyDavid Sterritt | 71
From the Eternal Sea He Rises, Creating Armies on Either Shore:
The Antichristology of the
Omen Franchise
R. Barton Palmer | 86
The Weird Devil: Lovecraftian Horror in John Carpenter's
Prince of DarknessCarl H. Sederholm | 103
Narration and Damnation in
Angel HeartMurray Leeder | 120
The Devil's in the Details: Devilish Desire and Roman Polanski's
The Ninth GateJeffrey Andrew Weinstock | 136
Agency or Allowance:
The Satanic Complications of Female Autonomy in
The Witches of Eastwick and
The WitchSimon Bacon | 149
"Roaming the Earth": Satan in
The Last Temptation of Christ and
The Passion of the ChristCatherine O'Brien | 161
Lucifer, Gabriel, and the Angelic Will in
The Prophecy and
ConstantineRegina M. Hansen | 178
Advocating for Satan: The Parousia-Inspired Horror Genre
David Hauka | 191
List of Contributors | 207
Index | 211
About the author
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Edited By) Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is professor of English at Central Michigan University and an associate editor of the
Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts. He has authored or edited twenty-four books, the most recent of which are
The Monster Theory Reader (2019),
Critical Approaches to Welcome to Night Vale: Podcasting Between Weather and the Void (2018),
The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic (2018), and
The Age of Lovecraft (2016). Visit him at JeffreyAndrewWeinstock.com.
Regina M. Hansen (Edited By) Regina M. Hansen teaches at Boston University. She publishes and presents on horror, religion in film, neo-Victorianism, and the fantastic. Her works include the edited volumes
Supernatural, Humanity and the Soul (with Susan George; 2014) and
Roman Catholicism in Fantastic Film, and a special Stephen King issue of
Science Fiction Film and Television (with Simon Brown; 2017), along with the novel
The Coming Storm (Atheneum 2021). Her writing on film, folklore, and the supernatural has appeared in the
Wall Street Journal Review and the children's magazine
Dig Into History.
