blood as food source, 57–58, 59
and carnivorous plants, 58–59
as copycat of Dracula, 56–57
and nocturnalism, 57
and “vampire killers,” 57
Nostradamus, 178
Nuevo León State Prison, 42
O
O Pioneers! (Cather), 140
O’Bannon, Dan, 158
O’Dea, Judith, 67
Okiku, 143
Old Testament, 169
O’Leary, Jim, 125
Oleson, J. C., 43, 44
Olivier, Laurence, 121
olms, 193–194
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 28
Oort, Jan, 164
Opsasnick, Mark, 88
orb spiders, 94
organ donations, 77, 78–79
Orion Pictures, 42–43
Orlando Sentinel, 114
Orlok, Count (fic), 56
ornithophobia, 125
Orthodoxy, 90
Orwell, George, 145
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 10
Overlook Hotel (fic), 138, 139, 141
Owens, Dedrick Darnell, 5
oxpecker, 58
P
pagans, 171, 172
panic attacks, 117, 118
Papua New Guinea, 83
Paradise Lost (Milton), 151
parallel universes, 165
Paramount Pictures, 23, 79
Paramount Studios, 22
Paranormal Activity, 183
paranormal researchers, 129–136
ParaNorman, 170
Parrish, Gib, 14
Pastrana, Julia, 203
pathos, 144
Pauli, Wolfgang, 160
Payne, Nathan, 178–179
Peake, Richard Brinsley, 76, 77
Peck, Gregory, 108
Peele, Jordan, 98, 103
Penny Dreadful, 39
peripheral vascular disease, 71
Perkins, Anthony, 21, 22
phantom limb pain, 79
pheromones, 178
phobias, 81, 108, 117–118, 125, 189
pica, 89
Pierce, Cheri Gray, 154
Pierce, Jack, 80–81
Pintauro, Danny, 110
Pirates of the Caribbean, 156
The Plague of Zombies, 67
Plainfield, WI, 21, 31
Plainfield Cemetery, 31
Planet of the Vampires, 158
Pleasence, Donald, 4
Pleshette, Suzanne, 123
Poe, Edgar Allan, 54, 55, 81, 124
Poltergeist, 129–136
clairvoyance, 178
paranormal researchers
childhood experience of, 130–131
equipment used by, 131–132
on ghost categories, 132
historical records used by, 131–132, 135
on intelligent haunting, 132, 133
on media portrayals, 133–134
on proof of paranormal activity, 134–136
reality of, versus perception of, 132, 134, 135
poltergeist theories, 129, 133
Tobe Hooper, 32
poppets, 9
porphyria, 53–54
Portland Psychotherapy Clinic, Research, and Training Center, 101
Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism (Allen), 88
The Possession, 91
possession
and “Chucky,” 8, 10
and demonic hauntings, 133
The Exorcist, 87–92
Get Out, 98–103
hypnosis, effectiveness of, 99–102
other movies depicting, 88, 92
parasitic types of creatures, 94–96
The Tingler, 93–97
in varied religious cultures, 89–91
by witches, 175
The Possession of Hannah Grace, 91
prairie madness, 139–140
Prana Film, 56
premature burial, 81
The Premature Burial (Poe), 55, 81
Price, Vincent, 93
primates, 124, 153
process killers, 33
product killers, 33, 41
projectile vomiting, 91
propaganda, 145
pseudo-coma, 70
Psychiatric Services, 203
Psycho, 21–29
Bates’ dual personalities, 23, 108
and dissociative identity disorder (DID), 24–28
legal culpability, theorizing Bates,’ 26–27
portrayal of mental illness in, 28
production drama, 21–22
psychiatric assessment of Bates, 26–28, 29
real-life basis of, 21–22, 30, 32–33
and sixties audiences, 21–22, 30, 31
Psycho (Bloch), 21, 22, 24
Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller (Leigh/Nickens), 22
Psychology Today, 25, 32, 44
psychopathy, 4–5, 6, 28
Puente, Dorothea, 62
pufferfish, 204
Q
Qing Dynasty, 68
R
rabies, 108–109, 110–112
race relations, 98–99, 103, 109
Raggedy Ann doll, 9
Raimi, Sam, 115
Rains, Claude, 201
Ramesses III, Pharaoh, 9
Rangel, Jesús Castillo, 42
Rath, Arun, 69
Rathbone, Basil, 109
“The Raven” (Poe), 124
ravens, 124
Ray, Charles Lee (fic), 8, 10
Ray, James Earl, 10
reanimated corpses
and body decomposition, 69–74
concept of “undead,” 68, 71–72
and embalming practices, 83
Frankenstein, 75–79
in Haitian voodoo lore, 67–68
The Mummy, 80–84
Night of the Living Dead, 67–74
and premature burial, 81
and science of transplants, 77–79
skin pallor, 70, 71
zombies’ lack of agenda, 74
“zombification,” 68, 69
Rebecca, 121
Rebecca (Du Maurier), 120
Red Dragon (Harris), 42
REM sleep, 18
Renfield (fic), 57
resurrectionists, 76
Review of Reviews, 59
Rhine, J. B., 173
The Ring
living without food, 144
plot of, 143–144
propaganda and brainwashing, 145
subliminal messages, 144–145
The Ring of Thoth (Doyle), 80
Ringu (Suzuki), 143
The Ritual, 186
Rock, Ben, 182
Romania, 89, 191
Romanian vampire legends, 51–52, 53
Romero, George A., 67, 68, 69, 71, 72, 74
Ross, Arthur A., 149
Rubinstein, Zelda, 136
Russo, John, 67
S
Sadako (fic), 143
Salem Witch Trials, 170, 175
Salem’s Lot, 32
Samara (fic), ix, 143, 145
Samsoe, Robin, 102
Samuel, prophet, 169
Sánchez, Eduardo, 180
Sands, Julian, 113
sandworms, 198
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 121
Sarandon, Chris, 8
Saul, King, 169
Savitsky, Sergey, 140–141
Scandinavia, 68
The Scarlet Letter, 170
Scheider, Roy, 154
schizophrenia, 89
Schreck, Max, 56
Schreiber, Flora Rheta, 24
Schroeder, Greta, 56
Schutt, Bill, 47–48
Scientific American, 144
Scott, Ridley, 158
sea monsters, 156–157
Secret Window, 24
“self-mummifying,” 82
serial killers
classifying, and typologies, 33, 41
Dykes Askew Simmons, 42
Ed Gein, 21, 22–23, 26, 30, 31–33, 39, 41–42
female versus male motives, 61–63
hedonistic, 62
with high IQs, 43–44
Jeffrey Dahmer, 33, 39, 44, 79
male and female contrast, 23
process/product killing, 33, 41
Psycho, 21–29
Rodney Alcala, 44, 102
The Silence of the Lambs, 41–48
and taxidermy, 39
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 9, 21, 30–40
werewolves and, 203
sex appeal, and vampires, 63. see also Jennifer’s Body
Seyfried, Amanda, 60, 61
Shabata, Frank (fic), 140
The Shadow over Innsmouth (Lovecraft), 151