Introduction; Steven Gerrard Part One: The Monstrous Feminine 1. 'She's that kind of a woman': Tracing the gender and sexual politics of the female vampire via The Hunger and American Horror Story: Hotel; Chloe Benson 2. 'Is this a chick thing now?': The feminism of Z NATION between Quality and Trash TV; Nadine Dannenberg 3. Weeping Angels: Doctor Who's (De)Monstrous Feminine; Khara Lukancic 4. The Representation of Older Women in Twenty-First Century Horror: An Analysis of Characters Played by Jessica Lange in American Horror Story; Natasha Parcei 5. 'She was not like I thought': The Woman as a Strange Being in Masters of Horror; Erika Moreno Tiburcio 6. The Monster Within: Lily in Penny Dreadful; Kylie Boon 7. Final Girls and Female Serial Killers: A Review of the Slasher Television Series from a Gender Perspective; Víctor Hernández-Santaolalla Part Two: The Monstrous Masculine 8. 'Is Hannibal in love with me?' Gender changes in the Television series Hannibal; Clare Smith 9. 'I'm pissed off, and I'm angry, and we need your permission to kill someone': Frustrated Masculinities in Charlie Brooker's Dead Set; Lauren Stephenson 10. The Problematic Relationship with Sympathetic Vampires in the TV series The Vampire Diaries; Fernando Canet 11. So Many Chick Flick Moments: Dean Winchester's Centrifugal Revolution; Susan Cosby Ronnenberg Part Three: The Monstrous Other 12. Depictions of Gender, Homes and Families in the TV version of The Exorcist; Samantha Holland 13. How iZombie Rethinks the Zombie Paradigm; Dahlia Schweitzer 14. Damaged Survivors in the Walking Dead. Gender and the Narrative Arcs of Carol and Daryl as Protectors and Nurturers; Marta F. Suarez 15. 'Some normal apple-pie life': Gendering Home in Supernatural; Jessica George 16. Female Audiences' Reception of American Horror Story in Greece; Despina Chronaki and Liza Tsaliki 17. 'Mother, I've really had enough of this! You can't just leave me alone in this abyss where I can't find you!' Norman/Norma and Bates Motel; Steven Gerrard Conclusion; Steven Gerrard

Horror has found a resurgence on television in the post-millennial years. This book will investigate the changing and challenging roles that gender has undergone in TV horror, examining a range of shows, including Hannibal, American Horror Story, The Walking Dead, Penny Dreadful, Supernatural, The Exorcist, iZombie, and Bates Motel.

Steven Gerrard is Reader of Film at Northern Film School, Leeds Beckett University, UK. He has written two monographs: one celebrating all things naughty but nice in the Carry On films, and another investigating the Modern British Horror Film. Samantha Holland is Senior Research Fellow at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Her publications include Pole Dancing, Empowerment & Embodiment and Modern Vintage Homes & Leisure Lives: Ghosts & Glamour. She is currently writing a book about Wonder Woman. Robert Shail is Professor of Film and Director of Research in the School of Film, Music and Performing Arts at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He is widely published on postwar British cinema, masculinity in film, and more recently on children's media. In 2016, he was awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship for his study of the Children's Film Foundation.