| Acknowledgments | ix | |
| Introduction: Horror Explained (Away) | 1 | |
| 1. Alternate Worlds | 7 | |
| Thresholds 9 | ||
| Atavism 14 | ||
| Mazes of the Serpent 20 | ||
| 2. Ghosts and Other Monsters | 28 | |
| Ghosts and Death 28 | ||
| Some Ghost Stories:The Spectre Revealed 36 | ||
| More Substantial Monsters 53 | ||
| 3. Conventions of Absence:The Style of Literary Horror | 71 | |
| Witnessing: Narratives of the Reporter 75 | ||
| Hieroglyphics, or The Language of Horror Narrative 84 | ||
| "Beads Strung on the Same String":The Absence of Plot 96 | ||
| Desolate Spaces 101 | ||
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Publication information:
Book title: Mazes of the Serpent: An Anatomy of Horror Narrative.
Contributors: Roger B. Salomon - Author.
Publisher: Cornell University Press.
Place of publication: Ithaca, NY.
Publication year: 2002.
Page number: vii.
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