Foreword by Barbie Wilde
Introduction by John Atkinson, Xavier Mendik and Daniel Sheppard

Keynote
The Monstrous-Feminine: Radical Abjection and Transformation by Barbara Creed

Articles
Domestic AI is the New Monstrous-Feminine: Compulsory Roles for Robot-Girls and Mothers in M3GAN (2023) by Joy C. Schaefer
You Are What You Eat: Vegetarianism and Cannibalism in Julia Ducornau's Raw (2016) by Iliana Cuellar
The Anti-Mother, Barbarian and Contemporary Representations of the Monstrous-Feminine by Elinor Dolliver
Hatching's 'Radical Abjection': Beyond Sex and Species in the Feminist New Wave by Lumi Etienne
Transforming the AIDS Monster: Tearing Apart the Human(e) in Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser Part II through Gothic Becoming-withs by Maximilian Breckwoldt
Abject Motherhood and the the Open Wounds of (Eco)Trauma in Lee Cronin's The Hole in the Ground (2019) by Marine Galiné
A Restoration of 'the Symbolic Order?': The Priest as Faux Father and the Threat of the Unruly Child in 1970s American Horror Cinema by Lakkaya Palmer
Redefining Consent and Gender Roles in Bollywood Romance: Promiscuity, Violence and the Monstrous Feminine in Stree by Rohini Chakraborty
'The Witches are Back!': Reframing the Witch and Abjection from Hocus Pocus (1993) to Hocus Pocus 2 (2022) by Emily Smith

Supplementary Filmed Interviews
The Devil's Work: Q&A with Ursula Dabrowsky - Interview by Barbara Creed (opens in new window)​
​Hellraiser: Q&A with Doug Bradley  - Interview by Paul McEvoy (opens in new window)
I Am Monsters: Q&A with Nicholas Vince - Interview by Xavier Mendik (opens in new window)

Review Articles
Heidi Honeycutt: I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies (Oxford: Headpress, 2024) Book review by Valeria Villegas Lindvall
Far East Film Festival, Udine, Italy (25 April – 2 June 2024) Report by Valentina Vitali
Barbara Creed: The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, 2nd ed. (London & New York, NY: Routledge, 2023) Book Review by Daniel Sheppard

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors