Introduction / Harold Bloom

King and the literary tradition of horror and the supernatural / Ben P. Indick

Stephen King : the good, the bad, and the academic / Don Herron

Stephen King : powers of horror / Clare Hanson

Tracing the gothic inheritance : Danse macabre / Tony Magistrale

"The face of Mr. Flip" : homophobia in the horror of Stephen King / Douglas Keesey

Some ways of reading The dead zone / Michael N. Stanton

The sin eater : orality, postliteracy, and the early Stephen King / Linda Badley

Needful things (1991) / Sharon A. Russell

The rape of the constant reader : Stephen King's construction of the female reader and violation of the female body in Misery / Kathleen Margaret Lant

Postmodern gothic : Stephen King's Pet sematary / Jesse W. Nash

Cars are girls : sexual power and sexual panic in Stephen King's Christine / Edward Madden

"Screaming while school was in session" : the construction of monstrosity in Stephen King's schoolhouse gothic / Sherry R. Truffin

Afterthought / Harold Bloom.