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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Folk Monsters and Monstrous Media
The Im/materialties, Modalities, and Regionalities of Being(s) Monstrous
Allison Craven and Jessica Balanzategui
1 The Momo Challenge as Urban Legend
Child and Adult Digital Cultures and the Global Mediated Unconscious
Jessica Balanzategui
2 "Every Imaginable Invention of the Devil"
Summoning the Monstrous in Eurocentric Conceptions of Voodoo
Karen Horsley
3 The Forest and the Trees
The "Woods" as Intersection between Documentary, Fairy Tale, and Internet Legend in Beware the Slenderman
Naja Later
4 Mark Duplass as Mumblegore Serial Killer
Fictional Vernacular Filmmaking in the Creep Series
Andrew Lynch
5 Monsters in the Forest
"Little Red Riding Hood" Crimes and Ecologies of the Real and Fantastic
Cristina Bacchilega and Pauline Greenhill
6 A Mother's Milk
Motherhood, Trauma, and Monstrous Children in Folk Horror
Emma Maguire
7 Documenting the Unheard
The Poetics of Listening and Empathy in The Family
Stephen Gaunson
8 Reimagining the Pontianak Myth in Malaysian Folk Horror
Flexible Tradition, Cinema, and Cultural Memory
Andrew Hock Soon Ng
9 An Uncommon Ancestor
Monstrous Emanations and Australian Tales of the Bunyip
Allison Craven
10 The Folk Horror "Feeling"
Monstrous Modalities and the Critical Occult
Jessica Balanzategui and Allison Craven
Works Cited
Mediagraphy
Index
List of Figures
1. The image of "Momo" that went viral 2018-19.
2. Duszejko in her "Big Bad Wolf" suit and her neighbour Matoga in "Red" drag in Pokot. Still from SPOOR/POKOT directed by Agnieszka Holland. © Studio Filmowe Tor/Robert Palka.
3. Promotional poster/DVD cover for Pokot. Next-Film.
4. Photograph of the sect children seen in the film and used as the theatrical poster. Public Domain.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Folk Monsters and Monstrous Media
The Im/materialties, Modalities, and Regionalities of Being(s) Monstrous
Allison Craven and Jessica Balanzategui
1 The Momo Challenge as Urban Legend
Child and Adult Digital Cultures and the Global Mediated Unconscious
Jessica Balanzategui
2 "Every Imaginable Invention of the Devil"
Summoning the Monstrous in Eurocentric Conceptions of Voodoo
Karen Horsley
3 The Forest and the Trees
The "Woods" as Intersection between Documentary, Fairy Tale, and Internet Legend in Beware the Slenderman
Naja Later
4 Mark Duplass as Mumblegore Serial Killer
Fictional Vernacular Filmmaking in the Creep Series
Andrew Lynch
5 Monsters in the Forest
"Little Red Riding Hood" Crimes and Ecologies of the Real and Fantastic
Cristina Bacchilega and Pauline Greenhill
6 A Mother's Milk
Motherhood, Trauma, and Monstrous Children in Folk Horror
Emma Maguire
7 Documenting the Unheard
The Poetics of Listening and Empathy in The Family
Stephen Gaunson
8 Reimagining the Pontianak Myth in Malaysian Folk Horror
Flexible Tradition, Cinema, and Cultural Memory
Andrew Hock Soon Ng
9 An Uncommon Ancestor
Monstrous Emanations and Australian Tales of the Bunyip
Allison Craven
10 The Folk Horror "Feeling"
Monstrous Modalities and the Critical Occult
Jessica Balanzategui and Allison Craven
Works Cited
Mediagraphy
Index
List of Figures
1. The image of "Momo" that went viral 2018-19.
2. Duszejko in her "Big Bad Wolf" suit and her neighbour Matoga in "Red" drag in Pokot. Still from SPOOR/POKOT directed by Agnieszka Holland. © Studio Filmowe Tor/Robert Palka.
3. Promotional poster/DVD cover for Pokot. Next-Film.
4. Photograph of the sect children seen in the film and used as the theatrical poster. Public Domain.