Chapter 1: Horror before film
Chapter 2: Shadowy silence: horror before sound
Chapter 3: Browning and Chaney: the father of freaks and the man of a thousand faces
Chapter 4: Monster central: the great horror cycles begin
Chapter 5: Cranking out the creepies: horror in the 1930s and 1940s
Chapter 6: Val Lewton and the terrors of the unseen
Chapter 7: Atomic-age monsters: the sci-fi-horror boom
Chapter 8: Blood and bosoms: the success of Hammer horror
Chapter 9: : The moment of shock: Psycho and Peeping Tom
Chapter 10: The Corman Poes, and the peerless Vincent Price
Chapter 11: Horror, Italian style
Chapter 12: All Hell breaks loose, 1960
Chapter 13: Bloody England: Hammer's competitors
Chapter 14: The sleep of reason: horror in Spanish
Chapter 15: Godzilla & Co.: Far East horror in transition
Chapter 16: Polanski, Coffin Joe, and others
Chapter 17: Clark, Craven, Carpenter, and Cronenberg
Chapter 18: Mainstream horror; or, bring the kids!
Chapter 19: J- and K-Horror, and other Asian alphabets: Chapter 20: The problem of torture porn
Chapter 22: There's usually a gorilla: horror-comedies
Chapter 23: Masters for a new millennium
Chapter 24: Is horror legit?
