Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction: Gudrun D. Whitehead and Julia Petrov, “Fashion and Fear” 1. Sara Piccolo Paci, "’Death Dress You Anew’: Fashion as Transience and Limit of Human Life in Christian Literature and Iconography between the 12th and 19th centuries” 2. Stephanie Bowry: “‘Their tattered mortal costumes will afford them none of the answers they seek’: Clothing immortals in the work of Anne Rice, Tanith Lee and Angela Carter” 3. Rafael Jaen and Robert I. Lublin: “Fashioning Frankenstein in Film: Brides of Frankenstein” 4. Sarah Heaton: “Wayward Wedding Dresses: Fabricating Horror in Dressing Rituals of Femininity” 5. Kasia Stempniak: “Fashioning Vengeance: Costume, Crime, and Contamination in Barbey d’Aurevilly’s La Vengeance d’une Femme” 6. Alanna McKnight: “Fashions From Hell: Jack the Ripper’s Enduring Influence on Dress” 7. Nigel Lezama: “Slasher Consciousness: Dandyism As Killer” 8. Rafael Jaen and Robert I. Lublin: “Fashioning Frankenstein in Film: Monsters and Men” 9. Nadia Buick and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas: “Horrific Transformations: Costume, Gender, and the Halloween Franchise” 10. Rose Butler: “Faces of Rage: Masks, Murderers and Motives in the Canadian Slasher Film” 11. Florent Christol: “Massacres and Masquerades: the Killer’s Costume in the American Slasher Film and the Cultural Myth of the Foolkiller” Index

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The first book to examine the role of fashion and costume in the construction of horror, with varied case studies from literature, film, and real life

About the Author

Julia Petrov is Curator of Western Canadian History at the Royal Alberta Museum and Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Alberta, Canada. She is the co-editor of The Thing About Museums (2011) and Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories (2012). Gudrun D. Whitehead is an assistant professor of museum studies at the University of Iceland in Reykjavík, Iceland. She is the Icelandic editor of the journal Nordisk Museologi and the lead editor of a forthcoming special edition of Museum and Society (2018).

Reviews

Fashioning Horror: Dressing to Kill on Screen and in Literature offers an incredible source to investigate the intriguing relationship between dress and horror as narrated in literature, cinema, and television.
*The Journal of Dress History*

Fashioning Horror unlocks the chilling wardrobe of a grisly array of sartorially obsessed monsters, ghosts and killers. The essays skilfully analyse the fashionable signification of the undead, flesh-eaters, slashers and their prey; a dazzling cast of fashion victims from the twelfth century to the present day.
*Jonathan Faiers, Professor of Fashion Thinking, Winchester School of Art, UK, and author of Dressing Dangerously: Dysfunctional Fashion in Film*

This book offers a worthwhile contribution to the highly apparent, but often overlooked, connection between fashion and horror. The authors in this collection pay great attention to the intricacies of fashion, costume and design across a range of horror genres. Most importantly, they explore the problems found in the link between materiality and genre itself.
*Royce Mahawatte, Central St Martins, University of the Arts, London, UK*