House of Horrors: Familial Intimacies Contemporary American Horror Fiction in Bloomington, MN

An analysis of intimate relationships in modern American horror fiction.
This is a study of tumultuous transformations of kinship and intimate relationships in American horror fiction over the last three decades. Twelve contemporary novels are grouped into four familiar thematic clusters—haunted houses, monsters, vampires, and hauntings—but it is primarily social scripts and concerns linked to intimacy and family life that structure the volume.