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Dedication
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Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Edwardian legacy and children's fiction
Part One Hauntings and Spectres
1 'What is it like to be dead and a ghost? Oh, do tell me Tom, I've been simply longing to know': Hauntology and spectrality in
2 Coming of age in The Owl Service: England and the uncertain future (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns)
3 'Oh please, let us come undone!' States of independence: Female temporality in the supernatural children's television and lit

4 'It came from beneath the sink': Children's horror television as an uncanny mirror (Merinda Staubli)
5 An adult nightmare: Garbage Pail Kids and the fear of the queer child (Max Hart)
6 The transgender twist: Mermen and gender nonconformity in Round the Twist (Jackson Phoenix Nash)
7 Weird doubling in Wes Craven's Stranger in Our House (1978) (Miranda Corcoran)
8 Suburban eerie: The Demon Headmaster (BBC 1, 1996-98) and The Demon Headmaster (CBBC, 2019) as neoliberal folk horror (
9 'My Carnaby cassock': Jimmy Savile, Jim'll Fix It and Top of the Pops (Benjamin Halligan)

Part Two Memory, Process and Practice
10 The technological uncanny: The role of memory prosthetics in hauntological practice (Michael Schofield)
11 The pandemic and the bomb (Flannán Delaney)
12 Killing a cow on kids' TV: The case of Die Sendung mit der Maus (Alexander Hartley)
13 Confronting ghosts: The inherited horrors of the Kent State Shooting (Elizabeth Tussey)
14 Creeping dread in The Singing Ringing Tree: East German cinematic fairy tale as children's tea-time entertainment (Wayne

15 'May cause drowsiness': A (false) memory of weekday morning television in the mid-1970s through the filter of prepubescent i
16 Bleak adventures in Kenneth Johnson's V (Keith McDonald)
17 Don't turn tail from horror: Using eco-horror in the secondary-school classroom (Hollie Adams)
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