The dark stage
Mud, blood, and magic: genre and gender in Pan's Labyrinth
The bio-logic of vengeance in Let the Right One In
"She made a choice": werewolf affordances and female character development
Lust, trust, and educational torture: the Vampire Diaries
Disgust and self-injury: In My Skin, Martyrs, Black Swan
The maternal myth: birth, breastfeeding, mothering
Home and road: Carol's change in the Walking Dead
Age anxiety and chills: Jessica Lange and American Horror Story
Abyss and peak: the new old woman
Exit: playing the ball back to the universe.