Introduction by Allienne Becker
Theoretical Perspectives
Vampirism by Clemens Ruthner
Mircea Eliade's Theory of the Fantastic by Elaine L. Kleiner
English Language Literatures
If Hamlet's Uncle Had Been a Nicer Guy by Brian Aldiss
Order from Chaos: War, Pestilence, and the Near-Death Experience in Katherine Anne Porter's Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Joan Frederick
The Flesh Made Word: Miss Lonelyhearts' Sublime Grotesque by Catherine Merrill
The Engendering of Narrative in Doris Lessing's Shikasta and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale by Earl G. Ingersoll
Foreign Literatures
Virgin, Knight, and Devil: Gottfried Keller's Legends as Fantasy by Lee B. Jennings
Fantastic Doubles in Cristina Fernández Cubas's Tales for Children by Kathleen M. Glenn
Hard to Be a God: The Political Antiworlds of Voznesensky, Sokolov, and the Brothers Strugatsky by Jesse Airaudi
The Wail of the Banshee: Vampire Ghosts, Man-Eating Ghosts, and Other Malevolent Spirits in Irish Fairy Tales by Maureen T. Krause
Comparative Literature
Borges' 'El Aleph' and Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher': Two Studies in the Poetics of Gothic Romance by Robin McAllister
The Emphasis on the European Contact Situation in the American Science Fiction Novel's Representation of Culture Contact by Tammy D. McJannet
We Almost Ate From the Tree of Life: Fantasy and Horror in Ancient Near Eastern Religious Texts by Susan Kray
Art and Creative Writing
Eros and the Mer: Poetry and an Exhibition of Artwork by Edward Carlos
Horror Fiction
Frankenstein and Dracula: The Question of Influence by Elizabeth Miller
Bürger's Ballad 'Lenore': En route to Dracula by David B. Dickens
Simmons and Powers: Postmodernism to Post-Romanticism by Janeen Webb
Theater and Film
Staging the Phantasmagorical:The Theatrical Challenges and Rewards of William Butler Yeats by James Flannery
Francis Coppola's Secret Gardens: Bram Stoker's Dracula and the Auteur as Decadent Visionary by Kenneth Jurkiewicz
Shape-Shifting, Vampires, and the Oedipus Myth: Jean Cocteau's The Infernal Machine by Irene Eynat-Confino
Speculative Fiction
Pierre Menard in Cyperspace: The Internet as Intertext by John Pennington
Remembering: Time and Myth in Kleinzeit and The Medusa Frequency by Peter Malekin