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ix LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS Page Image 3 The Hilton Sisters. Photofest publicity poster. Courtesy of Photofest. 13 Image of Elsa Lanchester as the Bride of Frankenstein. Courtesy of Photofest. 32 Cannibal Feast. University of Illinois. Image from Theodor de Bry’s Dritte Buch Americae (Frankfurt: Theodori de Bry, 1593). Courtesy of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 38 Cotton Mather title page from Boston Public Library. Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts. 63 Sea Serpent Polka. American Memory Project, Duke University. “Sea Serpent Polka,” by Moritz Strakosch (d. 1887). Courtesy of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University. 64 Hydrarchos! Sea Serpent. American Memory Project (Printed Ephemera , Portfolio 119, Folder 31). http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index. html. Courtesy of the American Memory archive at the Library of Congress. 70 The New Frankenstein: A Glimpse of the Horrible Fate in Store for Jeff Davis at the Hands of the Monster Rebellion. Vanity Fair, May 1862 (University of Michigan). 82 Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s Monster. Courtesy of Photofest. 99 LeBron James and Gisele. Cover of Vogue (April 2008). 99 King Kong movie poster with Fay Wray. Courtesy of Photofest. 103 Dracula Takes a Bite Out of Mina Harker. Courtesy of Photofest. 112 The Thing from Another World poster. Courtesy of Photofest. 119 Scene from Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Courtesy of Photofest. List of Photographs / x 137 Vampira. Author’s collection. 159 Jamie Lee Curtis—On the Set of Halloween. Courtesy of Photofest. 169 The Exorcist movie poster. Courtesy of Photofest. 174 Alien 3 by David Fincher. Courtesy of Photofest. 181 Halloween poster. Courtesy of Photofest. 194 Dracula from Hammer. Courtesy of Photofest. 195 Night of the Living Dead poster. Courtesy of Photofest. 209 Buffy. Courtesy of Photofest. 215 True Blood cast. Cover of Rolling Stone. September 2, 2010, print issue. 227 Terminator/Frankenstein juxtaposition. Courtesy of Photofest. ...

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