Chapter 1: Bonnie Bennett, Final Girl
Deanna P. Koretsky
Chapter 2: Gender and Race in Stranger Things: Fighting the Demogorgon One Stereotype at a Time
Amanda Putnam
Chapter 3: Debunking the Normative: Queerness Vis-à-vis “Magic Boys” in Fantasy Anime
Ananya Saha
Chapter 4: Ghosts of Gothic’s Past in the Present: The Haunting of Bly Manor and New Approaches to Adaptation and Representation for Young Adult Audiences
Michelle Drake
Chapter 5: To Choose or Be Chosen: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Question of Inheritance
M. Soledad Caballero
Chapter 6: Shunned Spaces and Queer Spirits: The Spectral Absence of LGBTQIA2S+ in Contemporary Ghost Lore
Barry M. Cole
Chapter 7: Siblings and the Supernatural: A Compelling Analysis of the Familial Bonds Presented in The Vampire Diaries
Ailish Kate Brassil
Chapter 8: Everyday Hero: The Hyper-Relatable Superheroes of the Life is Strange franchise
Mauro Colarieti
Chapter 9: Uncanny and Doubling Horror in Childhood: Abject Disruptions in Stranger Things
Amy Janna LeBlanc
Chapter 10: Now Memories: Restorative Nostalgia and Anachronistic Queerness in Stranger Things
Blue Profitt
Chapter 11: “Just Some Guy”: Musicals as an Expression of Queer Desire in Dead End: Paranormal Park
Xen Virtue
Chapter 12: “Just the Facts”: Erica Sinclair and the Possibility of Black Girlhood in Stranger Things
Rebecca Brown
Chapter 13: Bonnie ‘will figure it out. She always does.’: The Post-Racial, Pop Culture Mammy and The Vampire Diaries
Camille S. Alexander